Topics of Thought: The Logic of Knowledge, Belief, Imagination

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When one thinks—knows, believes, imagines—that something is the case, one's thought has a topic: it is about something, towards which one's mind is directed. What is the logic of thought, so understood? This book begins to explore the idea that, to answer the question,...