Talking about nothing : numbers, hallucinations, and fictions / Jody Azzouni.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Azzouni, Jody.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ontology.

Hallucinations and illusions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This work reconfigures metaphysics in radical ways that allow the accommodation of our ordinary ways of speaking of what does not exist while retaining the absolutely crucial presupposition that such objects exist in no way at all, have no properties and are not the truth-makers for the truths and falsities that are about them.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""General Introduction""; ""PART I: NUMBERS, HALLUCINATIONS, AND FICTIONS""; ""1 Numbers""; ""2 Hallucinations""; ""3 Fictions""; ""Conclusion to Part I""; ""PART II: LANGUAGES WITH AND WITHOUT ONTOLOGY""; ""Introduction to Part II""; ""4 Scientific Languages, Ontology, and Truth""; ""5 Truth Conditions and Semantics""; ""General Conclusion""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Z""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed Sept. 7, 2010).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-989003-X

0-19-993768-0

1-282-77604-5

9786612776045

0-19-978043-9

OCLC:

668193728