Bare Facts and Naked Truths: A New Correspondence Theory of TruthRoutledge, 2017 M09 29 - 204 pages The very idea of truth as a substantial and meaningful concept has been under attack recently from advocates of New Age and postmodern theories. In this book Englebretsen defends the notions of truth and objectivity as key to the scientific view of the natural world and presents an original defence of the 'commonsense' correspondence theory of truth. Englebretsen's approach overcomes the traditional difficulties of correspondence theories of truth with providing adequate and convincing accounts of truth-bearers, truth-makers and the correspondence relation between them by taking truth-bearers to be propositions and facts as constitutive properties of the world. This accessibly written book surveys all of the major competing theories of truth (coherence, pragmatic, redundancy, semantic, deflationary, disquotational, minimalist) before formulating the new defence of the correspondence theory and then exploring the consequences of the theory for issues in epistemology and ontology. The book concludes by showing how the idea of 'propositional depth' can be used to dissolve the Liar paradoxes. |
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A New Correspondence Theory of Truth George Englebretsen. Introduction Everything should be made as simple as ... concept of objective truth is fading out of the world ...I am willing to believe that history is for the most part ...
A New Correspondence Theory of Truth George Englebretsen. Introduction Everything should be made as simple as ... concept of objective truth is fading out of the world ...I am willing to believe that history is for the most part ...
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A New Correspondence Theory of Truth George Englebretsen. concepts and conceptual clusters. Some of these involve ... concept of a concept. An appropriate way to make progress here is to try to formulate a detailed, specific theory of ...
A New Correspondence Theory of Truth George Englebretsen. concepts and conceptual clusters. Some of these involve ... concept of a concept. An appropriate way to make progress here is to try to formulate a detailed, specific theory of ...
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... truth and statement-making provided in earlier chapters and Sommers's theory of “propositional depth.” I want to make very clear before proceeding that the kind of truth theory put forward here is an attempt to define truth, to analyze the ...
... truth and statement-making provided in earlier chapters and Sommers's theory of “propositional depth.” I want to make very clear before proceeding that the kind of truth theory put forward here is an attempt to define truth, to analyze the ...
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... truth. Postmodernists and New Agers are only encouraged by philosophers who fail to see the concept of truth as valuable or even meaningful. Many of them deny that one can even say what the concept of truth is. I hope to indicate in ...
... truth. Postmodernists and New Agers are only encouraged by philosophers who fail to see the concept of truth as valuable or even meaningful. Many of them deny that one can even say what the concept of truth is. I hope to indicate in ...
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