Truth and Truth-making - Softcover

Lowe, E. J.; Rami, A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844651452 ISBN 13: 9781844651450

Publisher: Routledge, 2008

Synopsis

Truth depends in some sense on reality. But it is a rather delicate matter to spell this intuition out in a plausible and precise way. According to the theory of truth-making this intuition implies that either every truth or at least every truth of a certain class of truths has a so-called truth-maker, an entity whose existence accounts for truth. This book aims to provide several ways of assessing the correctness of this controversial claim. The book presents a detailed introduction to the theory of truth-making, which outlines truth-maker relations, the ontological category of truth-making entities, and the scope of a truth-maker theory. The essays brought together here represent the most important articles on truth-making in the last three decades as well as new essays by leading researchers in the field of the theory of truth and of truth-making.

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E. J. Lowe, A. Rami

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1844651452
• ISBN 13: 9781844651450
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288