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

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Hill, Christopher S.
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Thought & World
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
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1 online resource (xii, 154 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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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.
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9780511615900 (ebook)
9780521814843 (hardback)
9780521892438 (paperback)
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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