Truth / Paul Horwich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Horwich, Paul.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Truth.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Clarendon Press, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What is truth? Horwich offers an exposition of the theory of minimalism, which argues that truth is an entirely mundane and unpuzzling concept. He makes a case for the minimalist view and explains its implications in a variety of situations.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""1 The Minimal Theory""; ""A Sketch of the Minimalist Conception""; ""The Space of Alternative Theories""; ""Summary of Alleged Difficulties""; ""2 The Proper Formulation""; ""1. 'Of what kinds are the entities to which truth may be attributed?'""; ""2. 'What are the fundamental principles of the minimal theory of truth?'""; ""3. 'It seems unlikely that instances of the equivalence schema could possibly....""; ""4. 'The minimal theory must be incomplete, for it says nothing about the relationships...""

""5. 'Even if the minimal theory is, in some sense, ""adequate"" and ""pure"",...""""6. 'If there were really no more to a complete theory of truth than a list of biconditionals like...""; ""7. 'The minimal theory fails to specify what are meant by attributions...""; ""8. 'Is the minimalist conception concerned with truth itself or with the word ""true""?'""; ""9. 'Even if we grant that, as predicates go, the truth predicate is highly unusual�even...""; ""10. 'If the equivalence schema is relied on indiscriminately, then the notorious ""liar""...""

""3 The Explanatory Role of the Concept of Truth""""11. 'Truth has certain characteristic effects and causes. For example, true beliefs tend to facilitate...""; ""12. 'Another lawlike generalization is that beliefs obtained as a result of certain methods...""; ""13. 'A further explanatory role for truth lies in the fact that the truth of scientific...""; ""14. 'Even if all our general beliefs about truth are deducible from the minimal theory...""; ""4 Methodology and Scientific Realism""

""15. 'Doesn't the deflationary perspective�the renunciation of a substantive notion of truth�lead...""""16. 'Isn't the minimalist perspective in some sense antirealist?...""; ""17. 'Is it notobvious that the nature of truth bears directly on the structure of reality...""; ""18. 'If, as the minimal theory implies, ""truth"" is not defined as the product of ideal inquiry,....""; ""19. 'How is it possible, given the minimal theory, for truth to be something of intrinsic...""; ""20. 'How can minimalism accommodate the idea of science progressing towards the truth?'""

""21. 'From the perspective of the minimalist conception of truth, it is impossible...""""5 Meaning and Logic""; ""22. 'As Davidson has argued, understanding a sentence, say, ""Tachyons can travel back in time"",....""; ""23. 'What about falsity and negation?'""; ""24. 'As Frege said, logic is the science of truth; so surely our accounts of truth and logic should be,....""; ""25. 'Minimalism cannot be squared with the role that the notion of truth must play....""; ""26. 'How can truth-value gaps be admitted?'""

""27. 'Doesn't philosophy require truth-value gaps in order to accommodate such....""

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-282-35154-0

9786612351549

0-19-152496-4

OCLC:

922969921