Global Anti-realism (Avebury Series in Philosophy) - Hardcover

Young, James O.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1859720587 ISBN 13: 9781859720585

Publisher: Avebury, 1995

Synopsis

This text seeks to provide an answer to the perennial question "what is truth"? According to the global anti-realist the trust conditions of all classes of sentences are detectable by speakers. The author argues that the only way to be a global anti-realist is to maintain that the truth conditions of all sentences are the conditions under which they cohere with a system of beliefs. Global anti-realism is a form of coherence theory of truth. Realists are committed to some form of correspondence theory. Both camps are opposed to deflationary accounts of truth according to which truth is not a property of sentences. This book examines the arguments for and against anti-realism and traces its consequences and metaphilosophical implications.

About this edition

• Publisher: Avebury
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1859720587
• ISBN 13: 9781859720585
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 168