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Basic Questions on Truth

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  1. Paul Weingartner
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Part of the book series: Episteme (EPIS, volume 24)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Is it appropriate to ask “What is truth?”

    • Paul Weingartner
    Pages 1-6

  3. Is it appropriate to ask for the meaning or for the definition of the expression “truth”, “the true” or “true”?

    • Paul Weingartner
    Pages 7-16

  4. Is the expression ‘true’ superfluous and/or not a predicate?

    • Paul Weingartner
    Pages 17-28

  5. Can the rules of a deductive system be called true or false?

    • Paul Weingartner
    Pages 29-44

  6. Are definitions true or false?

    • Paul Weingartner
    Pages 45-79

  7. Judgements, propositions, sentences

    • Paul Weingartner
    Pages 80-107

  8. Is a sentence true iff it corresponds to reality?

    • Paul Weingartner
    Pages 108-153

  9. Are there negative facts or properties?

    • Paul Weingartner
    Pages 154-173

  10. Can a false theory be nearer to the truth than another false theory?

    • Paul Weingartner
    Pages 174-194

  11. Ens et verum convertuntur?

    • Paul Weingartner
    Pages 195-206

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 207-230
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About this book

The task of the book is not to give a survey of the main theories on truth found in the literature. There are several books available which do this: The one of David for Deflationist (and Disquotational) Theories of Truth; that of Chapuis for Revision Theories of Truth; that of Kirkham for Correspondence Theories and several others; that ofRescher for Coherence Theories of Truth. Moreover the book is not an analy­ sis just of Tar ski's theory, like that of Moreno or the respective chapters in Kirkham, though Tarski's theory plays an important role in the whole work presented. The task of the book is to give a detailed answer to some basic questions on truth which have been perennial problems through the centuries and are still discussed today. The answer is given in the light of our knowledge today and with the help of modem logic. But the book explicitly aims at connecting recent problems with re­ lated ones in the whole history of philosophy. The method to incorporate important philosophers of the tradition into the analysis is that of disputation, i. e. of putting some of their main thesis into objections or counterobjections pro or contra a posi­ tive answer to the respective question. After the pros and cons are given a detailed answer to the question is proposed and finally commentaries and corrections are given to the objections and counterobjections in the light of the proposed answer.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Basic Questions on Truth

  • Authors: Paul Weingartner

  • Series Title: Episteme

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4034-8

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2000

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-6224-1Published: 30 September 2000

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-5779-0Published: 23 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-4034-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 230

  • Topics: Epistemology, Logic, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Science

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