Truth and words
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Truth and words
Oxford University Press, 2011, c2009
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First published in hardback, 2009
Includes bibliographical references (p. [320]-329) and index
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Description
To clarify and facilitate our inquiries we need to define a disquotational truth predicate that we are directly licensed to apply not only to our own sentences as we use them now, but also to other speakers' sentences and our own sentences as we used them in the past. The conventional wisdom is that there can be no such truth predicate. For it appears that the only instances of the disquotational pattern that we are directly licensed to accept are those that define
'is true' for our own sentences as we use them now. Gary Ebbs shows that this appearance is illusory. He constructs an account of words that licenses us to rely not only on formal (spelling-based) identifications of our own words, but also on our non-deliberative practical identifications of other
speakers' words and of our own words as we used them in the past. To overturn the conventional wisdom about disquotational truth, Ebbs argues, we need only combine this account of words with our disquotational definitions of truth for sentences as we use them now. The result radically transforms our understanding of truth and related topics, including anti-individualism, self-knowledge, and the intersubjectivity of logic.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Regimentation
- 2. The Tarski-Quine thesis
- 3. The intersubjectivity constraint
- 4. How to think about words
- 5. Learning from others, interpretation, and charity
- 6. A puzzle about sameness of satisfaction across time
- 7. Sense and partial extension
- 8. The puzzle diagnosed and dissolved
- 9. Applications and consequences
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