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Truth

By Pascal Engel

Book information

Year
2002
ISBN
9780773524620, 0773524614, 9780773524613, 0773524622
Open Library ID
OL17069162M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
118 MB (123629569 bytes)
Pages
192\91
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Engel argues that, although the minimalist conception of truth is basically right, it does not follow that truth can be eliminated from our philosophical thinking, as is claimed by some radical deflationists. In particular, he shows that some deflationist views have a definitively relativist and "postmodernist" ring and should be rejected. Even if a metaphysically substantive theory of truth has little chance to succeed, he argues, truth plays a central role as a norm or guiding value of our rational inquiries and practices in the philosophy of knowledge and in ethics.

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