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A Realist Conception of Truth

By William P. Alston

Book information

Publisher
Cornell Uni Press
Year
1997
ISBN
0801484103, 9780801484100
Open Library ID
OL18065062M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8597476 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
143\143
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

One of the most important Anglo-American philosophers of our time here joins the current philosophical debate about the nature of truth. William P. Alston formulates and defends a realist conception of truth, which he calls alethic realism (from "aletheia," Greek for "truth"). This idea holds that the truth value of a statement (belief or proposition) depends on whether what the statement is about is as the statement says it is. Michael Dummett and Hilary Putnam are two of the prominent and widely influential contemporary philosophers whose anti-realist ideas Alston attacks.

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