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Description of  Thought and World: An Austere Portrayal of Truth, Reference, and Semantic Correspondence (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy)

There is an important family of semantic notions that are applied to thoughts and to the conceptual constituents of thoughts as when one says that the thought that the Universe is expanding is true. Christopher Hill presents a theory of the content of such notions. That theory is largely deflationary in spirit. It represents a broad range of semantic notions free from substantive metaphysical and empirical presuppositions. He also explains the relationship of mirroring or semantic correspondence linking thoughts to reality.