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Thought and reality / Michael Dummett.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dummett, Michael, 1925-2011, author.
- Series:
- Lines of thought.
- Lines of thought
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Truth.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 109 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The key question of metaphysics is: What does reality consist of? This work sets out Dummett's views about some of the deepest questions in philosophy. It puts forward his controversial view of reality as indeterminate: there may be no fact of the matter about whether an object does or does not have a given property.
- Contents:
- Facts and propositions
- Semantics and metaphysics
- Truth and meaning
- Truth-conditional semantics
- Justificationist theories of meaning
- Tense and time
- Reality as it is in itself
- God and the world.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-955224-X
- 1-280-84570-8
- 9786610845705
- 0-19-151408-X
- 1-4294-5935-2
- OCLC:
- 99796298
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