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Aristotelian Insight
Author_George Englebretsen
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Constitutive Properties
correspondence
Correspondence Theory
correspondence theory in analytic philosophy
epistemology
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liar paradox resolution
Liar Sentence
Logical Copula
Londres Est Jolie
Make Truth Claims
Metalanguage
metaphysics
Nixon's Assertions
Nixon’s Assertions
Paraconsistent Logic
philosophy of science
Primary Truth Bearers
Proper Bearers
propositional logic
Propositional Phrase
Sed Magis Amica Veritas
Self-referential Comment
Semantic Diagram
Semantic Predicates
Sentence Users
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Therapeutic Touch
True Propositions
Truth Maker Principle
Truth Predicate
truth-bearers
Product details
- ISBN 9780754654643
- Weight: 460g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jan 2006
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The very idea of truth as a substantial and meaningful concept has been under attack recently from advocates of New Age and postmodern theories. In this book Englebretsen defends the notions of truth and objectivity as key to the scientific view of the natural world and presents an original defence of the 'commonsense' correspondence theory of truth. Englebretsen's approach overcomes the traditional difficulties of correspondence theories of truth with providing adequate and convincing accounts of truth-bearers, truth-makers and the correspondence relation between them by taking truth-bearers to be propositions and facts as constitutive properties of the world. This accessibly written book surveys all of the major competing theories of truth (coherence, pragmatic, redundancy, semantic, deflationary, disquotational, minimalist) before formulating the new defence of the correspondence theory and then exploring the consequences of the theory for issues in epistemology and ontology. The book concludes by showing how the idea of 'propositional depth' can be used to dissolve the Liar paradoxes.
George Englebretsen is Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Bishop's University, Lennoxville, Canada.
