Thought and World: An Austere Portrayal of Truth, Reference, and Semantic Correspondence

✍ Scribed by Christopher S. Hill

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 168
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
• Edition: 1St Edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

There is an important family of semantic notions that are applied to thoughts and to the conceptual constituents of thoughts--as when one says that the thought that the Universe is expanding is true. Christopher Hill presents a theory of the content of such notions. That theory is largely deflationary in spirit. It represents a broad range of semantic notions free from substantive metaphysical and empirical presuppositions. He also explains the relationship of mirroring or semantic correspondence linking thoughts to reality.

✦ Table of Contents

Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 5
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Dedication......Page 9
Contents......Page 11
Acknowledgments......Page 13
I......Page 15
II......Page 17
III......Page 20
IV......Page 21
V......Page 22
2 Truth in the Realm of Thoughts......Page 24
I......Page 25
II......Page 26
III......Page 30
IV......Page 31
Universal Elimination......Page 32
Existential Elimination......Page 33
V......Page 36
VI......Page 37
VII......Page 38
IX......Page 44
X......Page 46
First Derivation......Page 47
APPENDIX II......Page 48
SECTION II: AN OBJECTION TO CLASSICAL DEFLATIONISM......Page 52
SECTION III: STATES OF AFFAIRS......Page 55
SECTION IV: CANONICAL NAMES FOR STATES OF AFFAIRS......Page 60
SECTION V: SEMANTIC CORRESPONDENCE......Page 62
SECTION VI: ACTUALITY......Page 65
SECTION VII: CORRESPONDENCE INTUITIONS......Page 66
SECTION VIII: THE CORRESPONDENCE THEORY......Page 68
I......Page 72
II......Page 73
III......Page 75
IV......Page 78
V......Page 84
VI......Page 88
VII......Page 89
VIII......Page 93
IX......Page 96
APPENDIX......Page 100
I......Page 103
II......Page 105
III......Page 108
IV......Page 110
V......Page 115
VI......Page 120
I......Page 123
Derivation II......Page 124
II......Page 125
III......Page 130
Derivation III......Page 135
Derivation IV......Page 137
CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION......Page 141
CHAPTER 2. TRUTH IN THE REALM OF THOUGHTS......Page 144
CHAPTER 3. THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL......Page 151
CHAPTER 4. INDEXICAL REPRESENTATION AND DEFLATIONARY SEMANTICS......Page 156
CHAPTER 5. WHY MEANING MATTERS......Page 157
CHAPTER 6. INTO THE WILD BLUE YONDER......Page 159
Index......Page 161