Thought and world : an austere portrayal of truth, reference, and semantic correspondence / / Christopher S. Hill [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Hill Christopher S.
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 154 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 121
• Soggetto topico: Truth; Proposition (Logic); Semantics (Philosophy)
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-146) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 range of semantic notions - including the concept of truth - as being entirely free from substantive metaphysical and empirical presuppositions. At the same time, however, it takes seriously and seeks to explain the intuition that there is a metaphysically or empirically 'deep' relation (a relation of mirroring or semantic correspondence) linking thoughts to reality. Thus, the theory represents a kind of compromise between deflationism and versions of the correspondence theory of truth. This book will appeal to students and professionals interested in the philosophy of logic and language.
• Altri titoli varianti: Thought & World
• Titolo autorizzato: Thought and world
• ISBN: 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
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783121603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cambridge studies in philosophy.