- Заглавие:
Austere realism
- Автор:
Horgan Terry
- Место издания:
Cambridge, MA
- Издатель:
MIT Press
- Дата издания:
2008
- Объём:
x, 219 p.
- Серия:
Representation and mind
- Сведения о библиографии:
bibliographical references (p. [207]-213) and index
- ISBN:
9780262083768
- Сведения о содержании:
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
- Аннотация:
This work presents a provocative ontological-cum-semantic position stating 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.
- Язык текста:
Английский
Библиографический источник
Austere realism
contextual semantics meets minimal ontology / Terry Horgan, Matjaž Potrč