Christopher S. Hill - Thought And World: An Austere Portrayal of Truth, Reference, And Semantic Correspondence

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'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

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