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Richard Martin's thoroughly philosophical as well as thoroughly tech­ nical investigations deserve continued and appreciative study. His sympathy and good cheer do not obscure his rigorous standard, nor do his contemporary sophistication and intellectual independence obscure his critical congeniality toward classical and medieval philosophers. So he deals with old and new; his papers, in his neat self-descriptions, consist of reminders, criticisms, and constructions. They might also be seen as studies in the understanding of truth, ramifying as widely in mathematics, logic, and epistemology as well as metaphysics, as such understanding has required. For us it is a pleasant occasion to welcome Richard Martin's new Boston Studies, and to note his continuously con­ collection to the structive and critical interventions at the Boston Colloquium for the of Science. Philosophy Boston University Center for the R. S. COHEN Philosophy and History of Science M. W. WARTOFSKY July 1979 vii TABLE OF CONTENTS EDITORIAL PREFACE vii PREFACE xi ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xv I. Truth and Its Illicit Surrogates II. Some Reminders concerning Truth, Satisfaction, and Reference 17 III. On Disquotation and Intensionality 30 IV. On Truth, Belief, and Modes of Description 42 V. The Pragmatics of Self-Reference 55 VI. On Suppositio and Denotation 72 VII. Of Time and the Null Individual 82 VIII. Existence and Logical Form 95 IX. Tense, Aspect, and Modality 110 X. Of 'Of' 130 XI. Events and Actions: Brand and Kim 144 XII. Why I Am Not a Montague Grammarian 160 XIII.

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Author:   R.M. Martin
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Kluwer Academic Publishers
Edition:   1979 ed.
Volume:   38
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.664kg
ISBN:  

9789027709929

ISBN 10:   9027709920
Pages:   325
Publication Date:   31 October 1979
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

I. Truth and Its Illicit Surrogates.- II. Some Reminders concerning Truth, Satisfaction, and Reference.- III. On Disquotation and Intensionality.- IV. On Truth, Belief, and Modes of Description.- V. The Pragmatics of Self-Reference.- VI. On Suppositio and Denotation.- VII. Of Time and the Null Individual.- VIII. Existence and Logical Form.- IX. Tense, Aspect, and Modality.- X. Of ‘Of’.- XI. Events and Actions: Brand and Kim.- XII. Why I Am Not a Montague Grammarian.- XIII. The Truth about Kripke’s “Truth”.- XIV. On Possibilia and Essentiality: Ruth Marcus.- XV. On the Language of Causal Talk: Scriven and Suppes.- XVI. A Reading of Frege on Sense and Designation.- XVII. ‘And’.- XVIII. Some Protolinguistic Transformations.- XIX. Some Hi?ian Heresies.- XX. Mathematical Nominalism.- XXI. Of Logic, Learning, and Language.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.

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