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Understanding truth / Scott Soames.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 268 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585324557
  • 9780585324555
  • 1423760158
  • 9781423760153
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Understanding truth.DDC classification:
  • 121 21
LOC classification:
  • BC171 .S63 1999eb
Online resources:
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.
Summary: The author of this text explores the notion of truth and its role in our ordinary thought, as well as in logical, philosophical and scientific theories.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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The author of this text explores the notion of truth and its role in our ordinary thought, as well as in logical, philosophical and scientific theories.

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