{"product_id":"truth-meaning-reality-9780199268917","title":"Truth - Meaning - Reality","description":"\u003cem\u003eTruth -- Meaning -- Reality \u003c\/em\u003epresents a fresh approach to philosophy: a broad and unified deflationism that encompasses language, thought, knowledge, reality, and the relations between them. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHorwich's story begins with a minimalist view of truth according to which this extraordinary concept is far less profound and substantial than has usually been assumed, since it stems entirely from our regarding It is true that dogs bark as equivalent to Dogs bark, and similarly in the case of\u003cbr\u003eall other statements. There's nothing more to truth than that! \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis view turns out to be of fundamental importance throughout the subject. In the first instance it paves the way to an account of meaning as use, whereby the sense of each word-type is given by its basic patterns of deployment rather than by its association with a feature of the non-linguistic\u003cbr\u003eworld. And the combination of deflated truth and 'meaning as use' then yields a perspective from which the long-standing debates between forms of realism and anti-realism must be preconceived. We are able to see that the positions typically adopted in these debates are all defective -- contrived\u003cbr\u003eproducts of the mistaken assumption that reality, together with our representation of it, must exhibit a rigid uniformity and that deviations from the norm would be intolerably weird. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe fourteen essays collected here constitute a coherent and complete expression of this three-pronged philosophy. Each of them is self-standing. But they have been revised and arranged so as to reveal the power and plausibility of Horwich's overall approach.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Horwich\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/05\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199268917\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaul Horwich \u003c\/strong\u003e(BA Oxford 1968, MA Yale 1969, PhD Cornell 1974) is a Professor of Philosophy at New York University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39934190551155,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":50.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_ed9164c9-4669-43cd-a84d-bcff13b41149.jpg?v=1647877176","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/truth-meaning-reality-9780199268917","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}