Thought and World
An Austere Portrayal of Truth, Reference, and Semantic Correspondence
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- Author: Christopher S. Hill, University of Arkansas
- Date Published: December 2004
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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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'Hill's excellent Thought and World is a highly readable and important defence of a form of deflationism … it deserves, and will no dout receive, careful study.' The Philosophical Quarterly
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- Date Published: December 2004
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9780511058639
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Truth in the realm of thoughts
3. The marriage of heaven and hell: reconciling deflationary semantics with correspondence intuitions
4. Indexical representation and deflationary semantics
5. Why meaning matters
6. Into the wild blue yonder: non-designating concepts, vagueness, semantic paradox, and logical paradox.
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