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The Nature and Structure of Content (Paperback)
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The Nature and Structure of Content (Paperback)
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Belief in propositions has had a long and distinguished history in
analytic philosophy. Three of the founding fathers of analytic
philosophy, Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, and G. E. Moore,
believed in propositions. Many philosophers since then have shared
this belief; and the belief is widely, though certainly not
universally, accepted among philosophers today. Among contemporary
philosophers who believe in propositions, many, and perhaps even
most, take them to be structured entities with individuals,
properties, and relations as constituents. For example, the
proposition that Glenn loves Tracy has Glenn, the loving relation,
and Tracy as constituents. What is it, then, that binds these
constituents together and imposes structure on them? And if the
proposition that Glenn loves Tracy is distinct from the proposition
that Tracy loves Glenn yet both have the same constituents, what is
about the way these constituents are structured or bound together
that makes them two different propositions?
In The Nature and Structure of Content, Jeffrey C. King formulates
a detailed account of the metaphysical nature of propositions, and
provides fresh answers to the above questions. In addition to
explaining what it is that binds together the constituents of
structured propositions and imposes structure on them, King deals
with some of the standard objections to accounts of propositions:
he shows that there is no mystery about what propositions are; that
given certain minimal assumptions, it follows that they exist; and
that on his approach, we can see how and why propositions manage to
have truth conditions and represent the world as being a certain
way. The Nature and Structure of Content also contains a detailed
account of the nature of tense and modality, and provides a
solution to the paradox of analysis.
Scholars and students working in the philosophy of mind and
language will find this book rewarding reading.
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