Screen LibraryThe metaphysics of truth /
What is truth? What role does truth play in the connections between language and the world? What is the relationship between truth and being? Douglas Edwards tackles these questions and develops a distinctive metaphysical worldview. He argues that in some domains language responds to the world, wher...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2018. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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What is truth? What role does truth play in the connections between language and the world? What is the relationship between truth and being? Douglas Edwards tackles these questions and develops a distinctive metaphysical worldview. He argues that in some domains language responds to the world, whereas in others language generates the world. |
| Carrier Form: | x, 198 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [185]-193) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780198758693 0198758693 |
| Index Number: | BD171 |
| CLC: | B023.3 |
| Call Number: | B023.3/E262 |
| Contents: | Truth as a Property -- 2. Substantivity and Sparseness -- 3. Deflationism Revealed -- 4. Language-World Connections -- 5. Truth Re-Emerges -- 6. From Truth to Being -- 7. Models of Truth -- 8. Models of Being -- 9. Primitivism and Truth-Making -- 10. Truth-Making and the Nature of Truth. |