From an ontological point of view /
Implicit in much contemporary philosophy is a Picture Theory of language according to which we can 'read off' features of the world from features of our ways of talking about the world. I argue that truth-making is not entailment and that the Picture Theory should be jettisoned and replace...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford : New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
2003.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Implicit in much contemporary philosophy is a Picture Theory of language according to which we can 'read off' features of the world from features of our ways of talking about the world. I argue that truth-making is not entailment and that the Picture Theory should be jettisoned and replaced by an attitude of ontological seriousness. Freed of constraints imposed by the Picture Theory, we are in a position to see our way through metaphysical difficulties associated with contemporary philosophy of mind. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 267 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-259) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0199259747 9780199259748 9780191531859 0191531855 9780191597657 0191597651 0199286981 9780199286980 |