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Fixing Reference (Hardcover)
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Fixing Reference (Hardcover)
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Imogen Dickie develops an account of aboutness-fixing for thoughts
about ordinary objects, and of reference-fixing for the singular
terms we use to express them. Extant discussions of this topic
tread a weary path through descriptivist proposals, causalist
alternatives, and attempts to combine the most attractive elements
of each. The account developed here is a new beginning. It starts
with two basic principles. The first connects aboutness and truth:
a belief is about the object upon whose properties its truth or
falsity depends. The second connects truth and justification:
justification is truth conducive; in general and allowing
exceptions, a subject whose beliefs are justified will be unlucky
if they are not true, and not merely lucky if they are. These
principles-one connecting aboutness and truth; the other truth and
justification-combine to yield a third principle connecting
aboutness and justification: a body of beliefs is about the object
upon which its associated means of justification converges; the
object whose properties a subject justifying beliefs in this way
will be unlucky to get wrong and not merely luck to get right. The
first part of the book proves a precise version of this principle.
Its remaining chapters use the principle to explain how the
relations to objects that enable us to think about them-perceptual
attention; understanding of proper names; grasp of descriptions-do
their aboutness-fixing and thought-enabling work. The book includes
discussions of the nature of singular thought and the relation
between thought and consciousness.
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