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An Austere Portrayal of Truth, Reference, and Semantic Correspondence

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Hardcover | 11 July 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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Non-Fiction Philosophy Epistemology & The Theory of Knowledge Philosophy of The Mind History of Western Philosophy Western Philosophy Analytical Philosophy & Logical Positivism Philosophy & Logic Language & Linguistics Linguistics Semantics & Discourse Analysis

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Truth in the Realm of Thoughts	p. 10
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: Reconciling Deflationary Semantics with Correspondence Intuitions	p. 38
Indexical Representation and Deflationary Semantics	p. 58
Why Meaning Matters	p. 89
Into the Wild Blue Yonder: Nondesignating Concepts, Vagueness, Semantic Paradox, and Logical Paradox	p. 109
Notes	p. 127
Index	p. 147
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Thought and World

An Austere Portrayal of Truth, Reference, and Semantic Correspondence

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