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What is truth?

Edo Pivcevic

(Avebury series in philosophy)

Ashgate, c1997

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Includes index

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Description

This work tries to identify the leading ideas which underlie the strategies in arguments about truth, and demonstrate that these ideas are interlinked. The premises of these strategies are dissected and compared. It shows that truth is an event that consists of several interlocking strands.

Table of Contents

  • The problem of truth, or how does thought hook onto the world? the strategy of austerity
  • the naturalistic approach to truth conditions
  • truth and certainty
  • objectivity and the social construction of time
  • truth as a species of good
  • truth and philosophical explanation, truth as event.

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  • NCID
    BA33869862
  • ISBN
    • 1859727018
  • LCCN
    97071971
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Aldershot
  • Pages/Volumes
    xii, 207 p.
  • Size
    23cm
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