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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      December 2009
      July 2002
      ISBN:
      9780511615900
      9780521814843
      9780521892438
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511615900
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.42kg, 168 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.276kg, 170 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Philosophy: General Interest, Philosophy of Mind and Language, Philosophy
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
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    Subjects:
    Philosophy: General Interest, Philosophy of Mind and Language, Philosophy
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
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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.’

    Source: The Philosophical Quarterly

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