An Essay on Names and Truths (Oxford Linguistics)

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
ISBN 978–019–922652–8......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Prologue......Page 10
1.1 Truth as a human universal and as explanandum......Page 17
1.2 An internalist approach to the origin of human truth......Page 22
1.3 Child truth, animal truth......Page 39
1.4 On ‘mind’ and its architecture......Page 49
1.5 On ‘language’ and ‘thought’......Page 57
1.6 Conclusions......Page 68
2.1 Language as a particulate system in nature......Page 72
2.2 The essence of an ‘atom’......Page 85
2.3 Spencerism then and now......Page 105
2.4 Conclusions......Page 122
3.1 Stage-setting: The analytic content of a concept......Page 124
3.2 Conceptual structures......Page 136
3.3 Play it again, Sam......Page 147
3.4 Exploding the lexical atom......Page 155
3.5 Conclusions......Page 168
4.1 The fate of truth: deflation and elimination......Page 173
4.2 Two kinds of predication......Page 189
4.3 Predicating truth......Page 197
4.4 Alethic attitudes......Page 204
4.5 Implications for the metaphysics of truth......Page 207
4.6 Conclusions......Page 211
5.1 Explaining rigidity......Page 213
5.2 Atomicity and reference......Page 229
5.3 Conclusions......Page 235
Conclusions......Page 238
References......Page 240
E......Page 250
N......Page 251
T......Page 252
W......Page 253