Thought and world : an austere portrayal of truth, reference, and semantic correspondence / Christopher S. Hill.
The author presents a deflationary theory of the content of semantic notions. He represents a broad range of these notions as being free from substantive metaphysical and empirical presuppositions. He also seeks to explain the intuition that there is a relation of mirroring or semantic correspondenc...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2002.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in philosophy.
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| Summary: | The author presents a deflationary theory of the content of semantic notions. He represents a broad range of these notions as being free from substantive metaphysical and empirical presuppositions. He also seeks to explain the intuition that there is a relation of mirroring or semantic correspondence linking thoughts to reality. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 154 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-146) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511064969 9780511064968 0511058632 9780511058639 0511073429 9780511073427 9780521814843 0521814847 1107133858 9781107133853 1280419881 9781280419881 0511169833 9780511169830 1139148192 9781139148191 0511297017 9780511297014 0511615906 9780511615900 9780521892438 0521892430 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9780511615900 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |