Intensionality and Truth

An Essay on the Philosophy of A.N. Prior

Philip Hugly, C. Sayward (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

433 Seiten

2011 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1996
Springer (Verlag)
978-94-010-6617-4 (ISBN)

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Prior's view on intensionality and truth is based on the principle that sentences never name, that what sentences say cannot be otherwise signified, that a sentence says what it says whatever the type of its occurrence, and that sentential quantification is neither eliminable, substitutional, nor referential. The text defends each of these principles.

I. Propositions.- Prior’s Core Theory.- Is Prior A Nominalist?.- Prior On Truth - A First Look.- II. Comparisons.- Frege and Prior Onintensional Contexts.- Prior, Frege and Bealer On Types.- Fodor and Prior on Propositional Attitudes.- Davidson and Prior on Indirect Quotation.- Davidson on the Trviality of Truth.- Quine and Prior on Quantification.- III. Quantification and Generalization.- On Understanding Quantification.- A Problem for Prior.- A Possible Solution.- An Alternative Approach.- A Model Theory For Sentential Quantification.- IV. Truth.- Priors Theory Of Truth and Falsehood.- Non-Objective Truth.- Truth Value Gaps and Truth.- Notes.- References.- Name Index.

Reihe/Serie	Synthese Library ; 255
Zusatzinfo	XII, 433 p.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 240 mm
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
ISBN-10	94-010-6617-5 / 9401066175
ISBN-13	978-94-010-6617-4 / 9789401066174
Zustand	Neuware