Ontology, Modality and the Fallacy of Reference - Brossura

Jubien, Michael

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0521108578 ISBN 13: 9780521108577

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Riassunto

This is a book about the concept of a physical thing and about how the names of things relate to the things they name. It questions the prevalent view that names 'refer to' or 'denote' the things they name. Instead it presents a new theory of proper names, according to which names express certain special properties that the things they name exhibit. This theory leads to some important conclusions about whether things have any of their properties as a matter of necessity. This will be an important book for philosophers in metaphysics and the philosophy of language, though it will also interest linguists concerned with the semantics of natural language.

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Descrizione del libro:

This is a book about the concept of a physical thing and about how the names of things relate to the things they name. It questions the prevalent view that names 'refer to' or 'denote' the things they name.

Contenuti:

Preface; 1. Ontology; 2. Things and their parts; 3. Some properties of things; 4. A theory of names; 5. Necessity and essentialism; References; Index.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0521108578
• ISBN 13: 9780521108577
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 144