Truth and truth-making / edited by E.J. Lowe and A. Rami.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lowe, E. J. (E. Jonathan), editor.

Rami, Adolf, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Truth.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 262 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Truth & Truth-Making

Place of Publication:

Durham : Acumen Publishing, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Truth depends in some sense on reality. But it is a rather delicate matter to spell this intuition out in a plausible and precise way. According to the theory of truth-making this intuition implies that either every truth or at least every truth of a certain class of truths has a so-called truth-maker, an entity whose existence accounts for truth. This book aims to provide several ways of assessing the correctness of this controversial claim. The book presents a detailed introduction to the theory of truth-making, which outlines truth-maker relations, the ontological category of truth-making entities, and the scope of a truth-maker theory. The essays brought together here represent the most important articles on truth-making of the past three decades as well as new essays by leading researchers in the field of the theory of truth and of truth-making.

Contents:

pt. 1. Setting the stage

pt. 2. The current debate.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-317-49267-6

1-317-49268-4

1-315-71168-0

1-282-94735-4

9786612947353

1-84465-415-X

9781315711683

OCLC:

898104166