Truth : its nature, criteria and conditions / Haig Khatchadourian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Khatchadourian, Haig.

Series:

Philosophische Analyse ; Bd. 42.

Philosophische Analyse = Philosophical analysis ; Bd. 42

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Truth.

Truth--Correspondence theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (126 p.)

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt : Ontos Verlag, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Truth: Its criteria and conditions is an in-depth critical-and-constructive inquiry in almost equal measure. The theories of the nature of empirical truth critically considered include two forms of the traditional correspondence theory; truth as appraisal; truth as identity of proposition and truth; en emotive theory of truth; P.F. Strawson's performative theory, and N. Rescher's novel theory of a coherentist criterion of truth. The constructive parts include an analysis of the concept of "a fact," the meaning and uses of 'true' and 'false' in empirical statements, together with the various so

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

PREFACE

Chapter 1. The Traditional Correspondence Theory of Truth

Chapter 2. A Modified Correspondence Theory of Truth

Chapter 3. "Truth as Identity of Fact and Proposition"

Chapter 4. "Truth as Appraisal"

Chapter 5. Facts

Chapter 6. "Emotive Theory of Truth"

Chapter 7. Nicholas Rescher's Coherence Theory of Truth

Chapter 8. Standard Conditions, Preconditions and Presuppositions, and Performative & Constative Uses, of 'True' and 'False'

Chapter 9. Conditions of Cognitive & Conditions of Performative Uses of Truth Statements

Chapter 10. Appraisive/ Evaluative Uses of 'True' and 'False'

INDEX

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3-86838-126-0

3-11-032576-4

OCLC:

851972134