Truth and Predication

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674030220
Total Pages : 200 pages
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Book Synopsis Truth and Predication by : Donald Davidson

Download or read book Truth and Predication written by Donald Davidson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Correspondence Theory of Truth

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139434276
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Book Synopsis The Correspondence Theory of Truth by : Andrew Newman

Download or read book The Correspondence Theory of Truth written by Andrew Newman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-24 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Semantic Singularities

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198791542
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Book Synopsis Semantic Singularities by : Keith Simmons

Download or read book Semantic Singularities written by Keith Simmons and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Donald Davidson on Truth, Meaning, and the Mental

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199697515
Total Pages : 299 pages
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Book Synopsis Donald Davidson on Truth, Meaning, and the Mental by : Gerhard Preyer

Download or read book Donald Davidson on Truth, Meaning, and the Mental written by Gerhard Preyer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Logical Properties

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Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191529230
Total Pages : 122 pages
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Book Synopsis Logical Properties by : Colin McGinn

Download or read book Logical Properties written by Colin McGinn and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107132320
Total Pages : 285 pages
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Book Synopsis Plato on the Metaphysical Foundation of Meaning and Truth by : Blake E. Hestir

Download or read book Plato on the Metaphysical Foundation of Meaning and Truth written by Blake E. Hestir and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blake E. Hestir's examination of Plato's conception of truth challenges a long tradition of interpretation in ancient scholarship.

New Thinking about Propositions

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Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191502707
Total Pages : 256 pages
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Book Synopsis New Thinking about Propositions by : Jeffrey C. King

Download or read book New Thinking about Propositions written by Jeffrey C. King and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Truth, Language, and History

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Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191519243
Total Pages : 370 pages
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Book Synopsis Truth, Language, and History by : Donald Davidson

Download or read book Truth, Language, and History written by Donald Davidson and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2005-02-17 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Truth, Language, and History is the much-anticipated final volume of Donald Davidson's philosophical writings. In the four groups of essays that comprise it, Davidson continues to explore the themes that occupied him for more than fifty years: the relations between language and the world; speaker intention and linguistic meaning; language and mind; mind and body; mind and world; mind and other minds. He asks: what is the role of the concept of truth in these explorations? And, can a scientific world view make room for human thought without reducing it to something material and mechanistic? Davidson's underlying picture, which can be seen in many of these essays, is that we are acquainted directly with the world, not indirectly via some intermediary such as sense-data, representations, or language itself; that thought emerges in the first place through interpersonal communication in a shared material world, and continues to develop as we engage each other in dialogue; and that language depends on communication, not vice versa. This is the triangulating situation - two creatures communicating about a common world - about which Davidson has written elsewhere. As for the mind-body relation: our ontology need posit nothing more that material objects and events; but as explainers we require two mutually irreducible vocabularies: mind and body. In the last six essays Davidson finds interconnections between his own views and those of some of the major philosophers of the past. Including a new introduction by his widow, Marcia Cavell, this volume completes Donald Davidson's colossal intellectual legacy.

Understanding Truth

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195123357
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (233 download)

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Book Synopsis Understanding Truth by : Scott Soames

Download or read book Understanding Truth written by Scott Soames and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198718640
Total Pages : 161 pages
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Book Synopsis Leibniz by : Maria Rosa Antognazza

Download or read book Leibniz written by Maria Rosa Antognazza and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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?

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691156395
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Book Synopsis What Is Meaning? by : Scott Soames

Download or read book What Is Meaning? written by Scott Soames and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-28 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Spandrels of Truth

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199268738
Total Pages : 169 pages
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Book Synopsis Spandrels of Truth by : Jc Beall

Download or read book Spandrels of Truth written by Jc Beall and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-09 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Philosophy and Logic of Predication

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Publisher : Studies in Philosophy of Language and Linguistics
ISBN 13 : 9783631669204
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (692 download)

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Book Synopsis Philosophy and Logic of Predication by : Piotr Stalmaszczyk

Download or read book Philosophy and Logic of Predication written by Piotr Stalmaszczyk and published by Studies in Philosophy of Language and Linguistics. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Logic

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Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253004454
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis Logic by : Martin Heidegger

Download or read book Logic written by Martin Heidegger and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-22 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heidegger’s radical thinking on the meaning of truth in a “clear and comprehensive critical edition” (Philosophy in Review). Martin Heidegger’s 1925–26 lectures on truth and time provided much of the basis for his momentous work, Being and Time. Not published until 1976—three months before Heidegger’s death—as volume 21 of his Complete Works, it is nonetheless central to Heidegger’s overall project of reinterpreting Western thought in terms of time and truth. The text shows the degree to which Aristotle underlies Heidegger’s hermeneutical theory of meaning. It also contains Heidegger’s first published critique of Husserl and takes major steps toward establishing the temporal bases of logic and truth. Thomas Sheehan’s elegant and insightful translation offers English-speaking readers access to this fundamental text for the first time.

Knowledge, Language, and Interpretation

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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110322528
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis Knowledge, Language, and Interpretation by : Maria Cristina Amoretti

Download or read book Knowledge, Language, and Interpretation written by Maria Cristina Amoretti and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Truth, Thought, Reason

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Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9780199278534
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (785 download)

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Book Synopsis Truth, Thought, Reason by : Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Tyler Burge

Download or read book Truth, Thought, Reason written by Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Tyler Burge and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2005-02-17 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).

Forms of Thought

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107001250
Total Pages : 227 pages
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Book Synopsis Forms of Thought by : E. J. Lowe

Download or read book Forms of Thought written by E. J. Lowe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lowe investigates the forms of thought, showing how this study is crucial to understanding the powers of the intellect.