Understanding truth /
Scott Soames.
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
- 1 online resource (ix, 268 pages)
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.
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.