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Truth and Its Nature (if Any)

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  1. Jaroslav Peregrin

    1. Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic

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Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 284)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Past Masters on Truth

    1. Frege: Assertion, Truth and Meaning

      • Gary Kemp
      Pages 1-14

    2. Carnap, Syntax, and Truth

      • A. W. Carus
      Pages 15-35

    3. James’s Conception of Truth

      • Majeda Omar
      Pages 37-50

  3. Tarski and Correspondence

    1. Semantic Conception of Truth as a Philosophical Theory

      • Jan WoleÅ„ski
      Pages 51-65

    2. Truth, Correspondence, Satisfaction

      • Petr Kolář
      Pages 67-79

    3. Do We Need Correspondence Truth?

      • Frederick Stoutland
      Pages 81-90

    4. Tarskian Truth as Correspondence — Replies to Some Objections

      • Ilkka Niiniluoto
      Pages 91-104

  4. The Substantiality of Truth

    1. The Centrality of Truth

      • Donald Davidson
      Pages 105-115

    2. Mapping the Structure of Truth: Davidson Contra Rorty

      • Jeff Malpas
      Pages 117-127

    3. The Explanatory Value of Truth Theories Embodying the Semantic Conception

      • Manuel García-Carpintero
      Pages 129-148

    4. Negative Truth and Knowledge

      • Vladimír Svoboda
      Pages 149-161

  5. The Insubstantiality of Truth: The Pros and Cons of Deflationism

    1. Deflationary Truth, Aboutness and Meaning

      • Paul Horwich
      Pages 163-171

    2. The Substance of Deflation

      • Jerry Seligman
      Pages 173-186

    3. Does the Strategy of Austerity Work?

      • Edo Pivcevic
      Pages 187-201

    4. Rethinking the Concept of Truth: A Critique of Deflationism

      • Predrag Cicovacki
      Pages 203-221
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The question how to turn the principles implicitly governing the concept of truth into an explicit definition (or explication) of the concept hence coalesced with the question how to get a finite grip on the infinity of T-sentences. Tarski's famous and ingenious move was to introduce a new concept, satisfaction, which could be, on the one hand, recursively defined, and which, on the other hand, straightforwardly yielded an explication of truth. A surprising 'by-product' of Tarski's effort to bring truth under control was the breathtaking finding that truth is in a precisely defined sense ineffable, that no non­ trivial language can contain a truth-predicate which would be adequate for the very 4 language . This implied that truth (and consequently semantic concepts to which truth appeared to be reducible) proved itself to be strangely 'language-dependent': we can have a concept of truth-in-L for any language L, but we cannot have a concept of truth applicable to every language. In a sense, this means, as Quine (1969, p. 68) put it, that truth belongs to "transcendental metaphysics", and Tarski's 'scientific' investigations seem to lead us back towards a surprising proximity of some more traditional philosophical views on truth. 3. TARSKI'S THEORY AS A PARADIGM So far Tarski himself. Subsequent philosophers then had to find out what his considerations of the concept of truth really mean and what are their consequences; and this now seems to be an almost interminable task.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic

    Jaroslav Peregrin

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Truth and Its Nature (if Any)

  • Editors: Jaroslav Peregrin

  • Series Title: Synthese Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9233-8

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1999

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-5865-7Published: 31 August 1999

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-5280-3Published: 15 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-9233-8Published: 14 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0166-6991

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 221

  • Topics: Philosophy of Language, Epistemology, Logic, Semantics, Modern Philosophy

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