Austere realism contextual semantics meets minimal ontology

This work presents a provocative ontological-cum-semantic position stating 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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Horgan, Terry
Other Authors: Potrč, Matjaž
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press 2008
Series:Representation and mind
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