Austere Realism : Contextual Semantics Meets Minimal Ontology.
Title:
Austere Realism : Contextual Semantics Meets Minimal Ontology.
Author:
Horgan, Terence E.
ISBN:
9780262275682
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (231 pages)
Series:
Representation and Mind series
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Simple Realism: The Naive Approach to Truth and Ontology -- 2 Problems for Simple Realism -- 3 Contextual Semantics: Truth as Indirect Correspondence -- 4 Austere Realism: Overcoming Simple Realism's Problems -- 5 The Ascendance of the Austere: Further Arguments for Austere Realism -- 6 Objections to Austere Realism -- 7 Betting on the Blobject: The Choice among Austere Ontologies -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Abstract:
A provocative ontological-cum-semantic position asserting that the right ontology is austere in its exclusion of numerous common-sense and scientific posits and that many statements employing such posits are nonetheless true.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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