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Truth and Predication

Donald Davidson
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Author : Donald Davidson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0674030222

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This brief book takes readers to the very heart of what it is that philosophy can do well. Completed shortly before Donald Davidson's death at 85, Truth and Predication brings full circle a journey moving from the insights of Plato and Aristotle to the problems of contemporary philosophy. In particular, Davidson, countering many of his contemporaries, argues that the concept of truth is not ambiguous, and that we need an effective theory of truth in order to live well. Davidson begins by harking back to an early interest in the classics, and an even earlier engagement with the workings of grammar; in the pleasures of diagramming sentences in grade school, he locates his first glimpse into the mechanics of how we conduct the most important activities in our life--such as declaring love, asking directions, issuing orders, and telling stories. Davidson connects these essential questions with the most basic and yet hard to understand mysteries of language use--how we connect noun to verb. This is a problem that Plato and Aristotle wrestled with, and Davidson draws on their thinking to show how an understanding of linguistic behavior is critical to the formulating of a workable concept of truth. Anchored in classical philosophy, Truth and Predication nonetheless makes telling use of the work of a great number of modern philosophers from Tarski and Dewey to Quine and Rorty. Representing the very best of Western thought, it reopens the most difficult and pressing of ancient philosophical problems, and reveals them to be very much of our day.

Semantic Singularities

Keith Simmons
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Author : Keith Simmons
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198791546

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Keith Simmons presents an original, unified solution to the semantic paradoxes which have dogged attempts to give a consistent account of the logic of natural language since antiquity: the Liar paradox and the paradoxes of reference and predication.

Logical Properties

Colin McGinn
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Author : Colin McGinn
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191529238

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The concepts of identity, existence, predication, necessity, and truth are at the centre of philosophy and have rightly received sustained attention. Yet Colin McGinn believes that orthodox views of these topics are misguided in important ways. Philosophers and logicians have often distorted the nature of these concepts in an attempt to define them according to preconceived ideas. Logical Properties aims to respect the ordinary ways we talk and think when we employ these concepts, while at the same time showing that they are far more interesting and peculiar than some have supposed. There are real properties corresponding to these concepts - logical properties - that challenge naturalistic metaphysical views. These are not pseudo-properties or mere pieces of syntax. Logical Properties is written with the minimum of formal apparatus and deals with logico-linguistic issues as well as ontological ones. The focus is on trying to get to the essence of what the concept concerned stands for, and not merely finding some established notation for providing formal paraphrases.

Plato on the Metaphysical Foundation of Meaning and Truth

Blake E. Hestir
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Author : Blake E. Hestir
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107132320

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Plato on the Metaphysical Foundation of Meaning and Truth by Blake E. Hestir Pdf

Blake E. Hestir's examination of Plato's conception of truth challenges a long tradition of interpretation in ancient scholarship.

Donald Davidson on Truth, Meaning, and the Mental

Gerhard Preyer
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Author : Gerhard Preyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199697519

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Donald Davidson on Truth, Meaning, and the Mental by Gerhard Preyer Pdf

This volume offers a reappraisal of Donald Davidson's influential philosophy of thought, meaning, and language, Twelve specially written essays by leading philosophers in the field illuminate a range of themes and problems relating to these subjects, and engage in particular with Ernie Lepore and Kirk Ludwig's interpretation of Davidson's thought.

The Correspondence Theory of Truth

Andrew Newman
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Author : Andrew Newman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002-06-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139434270

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This work presents a version of the correspondence theory of truth based on Wittgenstein's Tractatus and Russell's theory of truth and discusses related metaphysical issues such as predication, facts and propositions. Like Russell and one prominent interpretation of the Tractatus it assumes a realist view of universals. Part of the aim is to avoid Platonic propositions, and although sympathy with facts is maintained in the early chapters, the book argues that facts as real entities are not needed. It includes discussion of contemporary philosophers such as David Armstrong, William Alston and Paul Horwich, as well as those who write about propositions and facts, and a number of students of Bertrand Russell. It will interest teachers and advanced students of philosophy who are interested in the realistic conception of truth and in issues in metaphysics related to the correspondence theory of truth, and those interested in Russell and the Tractatus.

New Thinking about Propositions

Jeffrey C. King,Scott Soames,Jeff Speaks
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Author : Jeffrey C. King,Scott Soames,Jeff Speaks
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191502705

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New Thinking about Propositions by Jeffrey C. King,Scott Soames,Jeff Speaks Pdf

Philosophy (especially philosophy of language and philosophy of mind), science (especially linguistics and cognitive science), and common sense all sometimes make reference to propositions—understood as the things we believe and say, and the things which are (primarily) true or false. There is, however, no widespread agreement about what sorts of things these entities are. In New Thinking about Propositions, Jeffrey C. King, Scott Soames, and Jeff Speaks argue that commitment to propositions is indispensable, and that traditional accounts of propositions are inadequate. They each then defend their own views of the nature of propositions.

Understanding Truth

Scott Soames
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Author : Scott Soames
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Truth
ISBN : 0195123352

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The author of this text explores the notion of truth and its role in our ordinary thought, as well as in logical, philosophical and scientific theories.

Leibniz

Maria Rosa Antognazza
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Author : Maria Rosa Antognazza
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780198718642

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This work considers who Leibniz was and introduces his overarching intellectual vision. It follows his pursuit of the systematic reform and advancement of all the sciences, to be undertaken as a collaborative enterprise supported by an enlightened ruler, and his ultimate goal of the improvement of the human condition.

What Is Meaning?

Scott Soames
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Author : Scott Soames
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691156392

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The tradition descending from Frege and Russell has typically treated theories of meaning either as theories of meanings (propositions expressed), or as theories of truth conditions. However, propositions of the classical sort don't exist, and truth conditions can't provide all the information required by a theory of meaning. In this book, one of the world's leading philosophers of language offers a way out of this dilemma. Traditionally conceived, propositions are denizens of a "third realm" beyond mind and matter, "grasped" by mysterious Platonic intuition. As conceived here, they are cognitive-event types in which agents predicate properties and relations of things--in using language, in perception, and in nonlinguistic thought. Because of this, one's acquaintance with, and knowledge of, propositions is acquaintance with, and knowledge of, events of one's cognitive life. This view also solves the problem of "the unity of the proposition" by explaining how propositions can be genuinely representational, and therefore bearers of truth. The problem, in the traditional conception, is that sentences, utterances, and mental states are representational because of the relations they bear to inherently representational Platonic complexes of universals and particulars. Since we have no way of understanding how such structures can be representational, independent of interpretations placed on them by agents, the problem is unsolvable when so conceived. However, when propositions are taken to be cognitive-event types, the order of explanation is reversed and a natural solution emerges. Propositions are representational because they are constitutively related to inherently representational cognitive acts. Strikingly original, What Is Meaning? is a major advance.

The Cambridge Companion to Frege

Tom Ricketts,Michael Potter
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Author : Tom Ricketts,Michael Potter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139825788

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The Cambridge Companion to Frege by Tom Ricketts,Michael Potter Pdf

Gottlob Frege (1848–1925) was unquestionably one of the most important philosophers of all time. He trained as a mathematician, and his work in philosophy started as an attempt to provide an explanation of the truths of arithmetic, but in the course of this attempt he not only founded modern logic but also had to address fundamental questions in the philosophy of language and philosophical logic. Frege is generally seen (along with Russell and Wittgenstein) as one of the fathers of the analytic method, which dominated philosophy in English-speaking countries for most of the twentieth century. His work is studied today not just for its historical importance but also because many of his ideas are still seen as relevant to current debates in the philosophies of logic, language, mathematics and the mind. The Cambridge Companion to Frege provides a route into this lively area of research.

Knowledge, Language, and Interpretation

Maria Cristina Amoretti,Nicla Vassallo
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Author : Maria Cristina Amoretti,Nicla Vassallo
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110322521

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Knowledge, Language, and Interpretation by Maria Cristina Amoretti,Nicla Vassallo Pdf

Thanks to their heterogeneity, the nine essays in this volume offer a clear testimony of Donald Davidson's authority, and they undoubtedly show how much his work - even if it has raised many doubts and criticisms - has been, and still is, highly influential and significant in contemporary analytical philosophy for a wide range of subjects. Moreover, the various articles not only critically and carefully analyze Davidson's theses and arguments (in particular those concerning language and knowledge), but they also illustrate how such theories and ideas, despite their unavoidable difficulties, are still alive and potentially fruitful. Davidon's work is indeed an important and provocative starting point for discussing the future progress of philosophy.

Philosophy and Logic of Predication

Piotr Stalmaszczyk
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Author : Piotr Stalmaszczyk
Publisher : Studies in Philosophy of Language and Linguistics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Predicate (Logic).
ISBN : 3631669208

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This book investigates philosophical and formal approaches to predication. The topics discussed include Aristotelian predication, a conceptualist approach to predication, possible formalizations of the notion, Fregean predicates and concepts, and Meinongian predication. The contributions discuss the approaches proposed by Aristotle and Frege, as well as the division of classes into a hierarchy of orders. They reanalyze the traditional notions, and offer new insights into predication theory. This book contributes to contemporary debates on predication and predicates in the philosophy of language.

Spandrels of Truth

Jc Beall,Jeffrey C. Beall
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Author : Jc Beall,Jeffrey C. Beall
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199268733

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Spandrels of Truth by Jc Beall,Jeffrey C. Beall Pdf

Jc Beall presents a new theory of 'transparent' truth. A prominent philosophical view of truth is as an entirely see-through device introduced for only practical (expressive) reasons. Beall's modest dialetheic theory shows how the notorious paradoxes associated with transparency can be dealt with.

Truth, Thought, Reason

Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Tyler Burge,Tyler Burge
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Author : Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Tyler Burge,Tyler Burge
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005-02-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199278539

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Truth, Thought, Reason by Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Tyler Burge,Tyler Burge Pdf

Frege (1991) -- The concept of truth in Frege's program (1984) -- Frege on truth (1986) -- Postscript to "Frege on truth" (2004) -- Frege and the hierarchy (1979) -- Postscript to "Frege and the hierarchy" (2004) -- Sinning against Frege (1979) -- Postscript to "Sinning against Frege" (2003) -- Frege on sense and linguistic meaning (1990) -- Frege on extensions of concepts, from 1884 to 1903 (1984) -- Frege on knowing the third realm (1992) -- Frege on knowing the foundation (1998) -- Frege on apriority (2000) -- Postscript to "Frege on apriority" (2003).