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Autore |
Horgan Terry <1948-> |
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Titolo |
Austere realism : contextual semantics meets minimal ontology / / Terry Horgan and Matjaž Potrč |
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Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2008 |
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1-282-10015-7 |
9786612100154 |
0-262-27568-6 |
1-4356-4784-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (231 p.) |
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Collana |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Ontology |
Realism |
Semantics |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-213) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 Simple Realism: The Naive Approach to Truth and Ontology; 2 Problems for Simple Realism; 3 Contextual Semantics: Truth as Indirect Correspondence; 4 Austere Realism: Overcoming Simple Realism's Problems; 5 The Ascendance of the Austere: Further Arguments for Austere Realism; 6 Objections to Austere Realism; 7 Betting on the Blobject: The Choice among Austere Ontologies; Notes; References; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This work presents a provocative ontological-cum-semantic position stating that the right ontology is austere in its exclusion of numerous common-sense and scientific posits and that many statements employing such posits are nonetheless true. |
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