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UNINA9910450539203321 |
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Autore |
Hill Christopher S. |
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Titolo |
Thought and world : an austere portrayal of truth, reference, and semantic correspondence / / Christopher S. Hill [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002 |
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1-107-13385-8 |
1-280-41988-1 |
0-511-16983-3 |
1-139-14819-2 |
0-511-06496-9 |
0-511-05863-2 |
0-511-29701-7 |
0-511-61590-6 |
0-511-07342-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xii, 154 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Collana |
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Cambridge studies in philosophy |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Truth |
Proposition (Logic) |
Semantics (Philosophy) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-146) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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There is an important family of semantic notions that we apply to thoughts and to the conceptual constituents of thoughts - as when we say that the thought that the Universe is expanding is true. Thought and World presents a theory of the content of such notions. The theory is largely deflationary in spirit, in the sense that it represents a broad |
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