Austere realism [[electronic resource] ] : contextual semantics meets minimal ontology / / Terry Horgan and Matjaž Potrč
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Horgan Terry <1948->
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| Titolo: |
Austere realism [[electronic resource] ] : contextual semantics meets minimal ontology / / Terry Horgan and Matjaž Potrč
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2008 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (231 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 149/.2 |
| Soggetto topico: | Ontology |
| Realism | |
| Semantics | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
PotrčMatjaž
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| Note generali: | "A Bradford book." |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-213) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Austere realism |
| ISBN: | 1-282-10015-7 |
| 9786612100154 | |
| 0-262-27568-6 | |
| 1-4356-4784-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910452190603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Representation and mind.