Talking About Nothing
Numbers, Hallucinations and Fictions
Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Logic, Reference & Language, Language Arts, Linguistics
| Author: | Jody Azzouni | ISBN: | 9780199890033 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press | Publication: | September 30, 2010 |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Jody Azzouni |
| ISBN: | 9780199890033 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Publication: | September 30, 2010 |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Language: | English |
This book reconfigures metaphysics (and the role of metaphysics in semantics) in radical ways that allow the accommodation of our ordinary ways of speaking of what does not exist while retaining the absolutely crucial presupposition that such objects exist in no way at all, have no properties, and so are not the truth-makers for the truths and falsities that are about them.
This book reconfigures metaphysics (and the role of metaphysics in semantics) in radical ways that allow the accommodation of our ordinary ways of speaking of what does not exist while retaining the absolutely crucial presupposition that such objects exist in no way at all, have no properties, and so are not the truth-makers for the truths and falsities that are about them.
