Propositions [[electronic resource] ] : semantic and ontological issues / / edited by Massimiliano Carrara and Elisabetta Sacchi

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (259 p.)
• Disciplina: 111
• Soggetto topico: Proposition (Logic); Semantics; Ontology
• Altri autori: CarraraMassimiliano SacchiElisabetta <1964->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Table of Contents; Propositions. An Introduction; Ascent, Propositions and Other Formal Objects; Colouring, Multiple Propositions, and Assertoric Content; Fregean Propositions and Their Graspability; Numbers, Reference and Russellian Propositions; On the Sameness of the Thoughts. Substitutional Quantifiers, Tense, and Belief; True In a Sense; Speech Acts Without Propositions?; How to Get a Non-Intensionalist, Propositional, Moderately Realist Truthconditional Account of Internal Metafictional Sentences; Fictional Propositions and the Unprovability of Consistency ; Propositions and Necessary ExistenceNegation
• Sommario/riassunto: This special issue of GPS collects 11 papers (and a long introduction), by leading philosophers and young researchers, which tackle more or less from close the topic of propositions by trying to provide the reader with a cross-section of the ongoing debate in this area. The raised issues range over the semantics, the ontology, the epistemology, and the philosophy of mathematics and stimulate the reader to reflect on crucial problems such as the following: are propositions objects? In the positive case, what kind of objects are they? Can they be grasped by cognitive creatures such as we are? Wh
• Titolo autorizzato: Propositions
• ISBN: 94-012-0433-0; 1-4356-0070-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778287703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Grazer philosophische Studien ; ; 72.