Realism and the Correspondence Theory of Truth
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Studies in Epistemology and Cognitive Theory
ISBN-10
0742512835
ISBN-13
9780742512832
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 25th, 2002
Print length
166 Pages
Weight
340 grams
Dimensions
23.80 x 16.60 x 1.80 cms
Product Classification:
Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge
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This work is a defence of the realism about truth. The author covers various philosophies about truth and what makes it real.
This book is a defense of realism about truth. The author argues that the most plausible version of realism is a correspondence theory of Truth that takes thought as the primary bearer of truth value. Anti-realists about Truth have seemed to argue that one cannot make sense of a world of ''truth-makers'' that exists independently of representations of that world. While it may be true that there is no Truth without minds, one still needs the category of representation—independent fact, the author argues, to serve as truth-maker. In embracing this form of realism, the author does not want to deny the critical role that mind, through its representations, plays in structuring the reality that exists independently of those representations. Furthermore, after distinguishing realism about Truth from various sorts of metaphysical realisms, the author suggests that one can embrace much of anti-realist rhetoric from within the framework of a variety of plausible claims about the way in which minds do and must represent the world.
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