Wittgenstein's Account of Truth
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- ISBN 9780791456262
- Weight: 254g
- Publication Date: 30 Jan 2003
- Publisher: State University of New York Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Explores the complex nature of truth in Wittgenstein's philosophy.
Wittgenstein's Account of Truth challenges the view that semantic antirealists attribute to Wittgenstein: that we cannot meaningfully call verification-transcendent statements "true." Ellenbogen argues that Wittgenstein would not have held that we should revise our practice of treating certain statements as true or false, but instead would have held that we should revise our view of what it means to call a statement true. According to the dictum "meaning is use," what makes it correct to call a statement "true" is not its correspondence with how things are, but our criterion for determining its truth. What it means for us to call a statement "true" is that we currently judge it true, knowing that we may some day revise the criteria whereby we do so.
Sara Ellenbogen is a visiting scholar at Boston University.
