What is truth?
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What is truth?
(Avebury series in philosophy)
Ashgate, c1997
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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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