When truth gives out / Mark Richard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Richard, Mark.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Truth.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Is the point of belief and assertion invariably to think or say something true? Is the truth of a belief or assertion absolute, or is it only relative to human interests? Most philosophers think it incoherent to profess to believe something but not think it true, or to say that some of the things we believe are only relatively true. Common sense disagrees. It sees many opinions, such as those about matters of taste, as neither true nor false; it takes it as obvious that some ofthe truth is relative.Mark Richard's accessible book argues that when it comes to truth, common sense is right, philos

Contents:

Epithets and attitudes

When truth gives out

What the emotivists should have said

What's the matter with relativism?

Matters of taste

Appendix 1 : what can be said?

Appendix 2 : relativism and contextualism about knowledge.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-179) and index.

Description based on print version record.

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ISBN:

0-19-161519-6

0-19-958728-0

1-281-85289-9

9786611852894

0-19-155370-0

OCLC:

261960241