Truth and truth bearers / Mark Richard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Richard, Mark, author.

Series:

Meaning in context (Oxford University Press) ; v. 2.

Meaning in context (Oxford University Press) ; v. 2

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Proposition (Logic).

Propositional attitudes.

Semantics (Philosophy).

Truth.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume collects nine seminal essays by Mark Richard, alongside four new essays and an introduction. Each essay attempts to understand the idea of a proposition. Richard explores the truth value of objects of thought and assertion; defends a relativist view of those objects; and discusses relations between sentential and propositional structure.

Contents:

1.Introduction

pt. I Time, Tense, and Truth

2.Temporalism and Eternalism

3.Tense, Propositions, and Meanings

4.Temporalism and Eternalism Revisited

pt. II Relativism, Truth Bearers, and Indeterminacy

5.Contextualism and Relativism

6.What is Disagreement?

7.Relativisms

8.What are Propositions?

9.Indeterminacy and Truth Value Gaps

pt. III Quotation, Opacity, and Semantic Competence

10.Quotation, Grammar, and Opacity

11.Opacity

12.Did I Mention What He Said?

13.Articulated Terms

14.Analysis, Synonymy, and Sense.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 9, 2015).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-181153-X

0-19-106490-4

OCLC:

923009565