Austere Realism: Contextual Semantics Meets Minimal Ontology

by Terence Horgan

Book Overview

A provocative ontological-cum-semantic position asserting that the right ontology is austere in its exclusion of numerous common-sense and scientific posits and that many statements employing such posits are nonetheless true.

The authors of Austere Realism describe and defend a provocative ontological-cum-semantic position, asserting that the right ontology is minimal or austere, in that it excludes numerous common-sense posits,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262083760
• ISBN13: 9780262083768
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 219 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher