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Truly Understood (Hardcover)
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Truly Understood (Hardcover)
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In Truly Understood, Christopher Peacocke argues that truth and
reference have a much deeper role in the explanation of meaning and
understanding than has hitherto been appreciated. Examination of
specific concepts shows that a grasp of these concepts has to be
characterized in terms of reference, identity, and relations to the
world.
Peacocke develops a positive general theory of understanding based
on the idea that concepts are individuated by their fundamental
reference rules, which contrasts sharply with conceptual-role,
inferentialist, and pragmatist approaches to meaning. He treats
thought about the material world, about places and times, and about
the self within the framework of this general account, and extends
the theory to explain the normative dimensions of content, which he
believes are founded in the network of connections between concepts
and the level of reference and truth. In the second part of the
book, Peacocke explores the application of this account to some
problematic mental phenomena, including the conception of many
subjects of experience, concepts of conscious states, mental
action, and our ability to think about the contents of our own and
others' mental states.
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