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What truth is / Mark Jago.
LIBRA BD171 .J34 2018
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jago, Mark, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Truth.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 356 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- Mark Jago offers a new metaphysical account of truth. He argues that to be true is to be made true by the existence of a suitable worldly entity. Truth arises as a relation between a proposition - the content of our sayings, thoughts, beliefs, and so on - and an entity (or entities) in the world.
- Contents:
- I. Truth and making true
- Truth: substantial or insubstantial?
- Arguments for truthmaking
- Truthmaker maximalism
- II. Truthmakers
- States of affairs
- Everything and nothing
- III. Truthmaking relation
- Truthmaking and grounding
- The logic of truthmaking
- IV. Propositions and paradoxes
- The nature of propositions
- Dealing with liars.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-348) and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James A. Crawford Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0198823819
- 9780198823810
- OCLC:
- 1015242970
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