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Truth - Meaning - Reality (Paperback)
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Truth - Meaning - Reality (Paperback)
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Truth -- Meaning -- Reality presents a fresh approach to
philosophy: a broad and unified deflationism that encompasses
language, thought, knowledge, reality, and the relations between
them.
Horwich's story begins with a minimalist view of truth according to
which this extraordinary concept is far less profound and
substantial than has usually been assumed, since it stems entirely
from our regarding "It is true that dogs bark" as equivalent to
"Dogs bark," and similarly in the case of all other statements.
There's nothing more to truth than that
This view turns out to be of fundamental importance throughout the
subject. In the first instance it paves the way to an account of
meaning as use, whereby the sense of each word-type is given by its
basic patterns of deployment rather than by its association with a
feature of the non-linguistic world. And the combination of
deflated truth and 'meaning as use' then yields a perspective from
which the long-standing debates between forms of "realism" and
"anti-realism" must be preconceived. We are able to see that the
positions typically adopted in these debates are all defective --
contrived products of the mistaken assumption that reality,
together with our representation of it, must exhibit a rigid
uniformity and that deviations from the norm would be intolerably
"weird."
The fourteen essays collected here constitute a coherent and
complete expression of this three-pronged philosophy. Each of them
is self-standing. But they have been revised and arranged so as to
reveal the power and plausibility of Horwich's overall approach.
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