Representation of the world
Subtitle: a naturalized semantics
By: Arthur Melnick.
Series: Revisioning philosophy,; vol. 26
Publisher: P. Lang; Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
Subjects: Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.; Representation (Philosophy); Realism.; Naturalism.; Semantics (Philosophy)
Description: We have thoughts of the world by having thoughts of spatio-temporal positioning which, as naturalized, are mechanisms for spatio-temporal constructive output. Even thoughts of past time are such thoughts of positioning by being mechanisms for being beyond stages of temporal constructions. This allows a naturalized realist semantics in which the content of thoughts that are in the head is purported existence anywhere in space and time.

A correspondence theory of truth and a truth-conditional theory of meaning derive naturalistically from this basis.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-352) and index.