Understanding truth /

Main Author: Soames, Scott.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foundational issues
  • Truth bearers
  • Forms of truth skepticism
  • Two theories of truth
  • Tarski's definition of truth
  • The significance of Tarski's theory of truth
  • Lessons of the liar
  • Truth, paradox, and partially defined predicates
  • Extensions
  • Vagueness, partiality, and the sorites paradox
  • What is truth?: the deflationary perspective.