Facing Facts
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: February 7, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780199247158
First sentence: The idea that one thing might represent another is a cornerstone of modern philosophy: thoughts, utterances, and inscriptions are said to have content in virtue of their power to represent reality; those that do the job accurately are true, they correspond to the facts or mirror reality (nature, the world).