Logic, Language, Philosophy of, Logic & Foundations of Mathematics, Semantics, Truth

Thought and World

Name: Thought and World
Author: Christopher S. Hill
ISBN: 9780521892438

by Christopher S. Hill

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Overview

There is an important family of semantic notions that are applied to thoughts and to the conceptual constituents of thoughts--as when one says that the thought that the Universe is expanding is true. Christopher Hill presents a theory of the content of such notions. That theory is largely deflationary in spirit. It represents a broad range of semantic notions free from substantive metaphysical and empirical presuppositions. He also explains the relationship of mirroring or semantic correspondence linking thoughts to reality.

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Hill (philosophy, U. of Arkansas) advocates for a deflationary theory of philosophical truth that argues that truth is philosophically and empirically neutral. In other words, all truth is characterized solely by the propositional form that states that "the thought that

is true if and only if

." The implication of this is that particular philosophical theories are not necessary for the acquirement of the concept of truth. Differing from other deflationist theorists, Hill does believe its possible to incorporate correspondence theorist ideas of the relation of semantic correspondence between thoughts and the world without abandoning the core commitments of deflationism. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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'Hill's excellent Thought and World is a highly readable and important defence of a form of deflationism … it deserves, and will no dout receive, careful study.' The Philosophical Quarterly