Thought and World
An Austere Portrayal of Truth, Reference, and Semantic Correspondence
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…
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- ISBN: 978-0-511-05863-9
- EAN: 9780511058639
- Produktnummer: 13832549
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
- Seitenangabe: 0 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 791 KB
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