| Description |
vii, 350 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Mark Platts -- Truth and use / Colin McGinn -- Causal modalities and realism / Christopher Peacocke -- Moral reality and the end of desire / Mark Platts -- Tarski's theory of truth / Hartry Field -- Physicalism and primitive denotation : Field on Tarski / John McDowell -- Reality without reference / Donald Davidson -- On the sense and reference of a proper name / John McDowell -- Truth and singular terms / Tyler Burge -- Truth-theory for indexical languages / Barry Taylor -- Operators, predicates and truth-theory / Colin McGinn -- Quotation and saying that / John McDowell -- What metaphors mean / Donald Davidson -- Pronouns, quantifiers and relative clauses / Gareth Evans -- 'Most' and 'all' : some comments on a familiar programme, and on the logical form of quantified sentences / David Wiggins |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Language and languages -- Philosophy.
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| Author |
Platts, Mark de Bretton, 1947-
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| LC no. |
79042859 |
| ISBN |
0710004052 |
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0710004060 (paperback) |
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