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Thought and world : an austere portrayal of truth, reference, and semantic correspondence /

The author presents a deflationary theory of the content of semantic notions. He represents a broad range of these notions as being free from substantive metaphysical and empirical presuppositions. He also seeks to explain the intuition that there is a relation of mirroring or semantic correspondenc...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Hill, Christopher S.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Collection:Cambridge studies in philosophy.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Truth in the Realm of Thoughts; 3 The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: Reconciling Deflationary Semantics with Correspondence Intuitions; 4 Indexical Representation and Deflationary Semantics; 5 Why Meaning Matters; 6 Into the Wild Blue Yonder: Nondesignating Concepts, Vagueness, Semantic Paradox, and Logical Paradox; Notes; Index.