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Bare Facts and Naked Truths: A New Correspondence Theory of Truth

By George Englebretsen

Book information

Publisher
Ashgate
Year
2006
ISBN
0754654648, 9780754654643
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
65 MB (67732085 bytes)
Pages
194\102
Time added
2017-06-14 15:26:03

Description

The very idea of truth as a substantial and meaningful concept has been under attack recently from advocates of New Age and postmodern theories. In this book Englebretsen defends the notions of truth and objectivity as key to the scientific view of the natural world and presents an original defence of the 'commonsense' correspondence theory of truth. Englebretsen's approach overcomes the traditional difficulties of correspondence theories of truth with providing adequate and convincing accounts of truth-bearers, truth-makers and the correspondence relation between them by taking truth-bearers to be propositions and facts as constitutive properties of the world. This accessibly written book surveys all of the major competing theories of truth (coherence, pragmatic, redundancy, semantic, deflationary, disquotational, minimalist) before formulating the new defence of the correspondence theory ...

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