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Thought and World : An Austere Portrayal of Truth, Reference, and Semantic Correspondence - Christopher S. Hill

Thought and World

An Austere Portrayal of Truth, Reference, and Semantic Correspondence

By: Christopher S. Hill

Hardcover | 7 November 2002

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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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