This brief book takes readers to the very heart of what it is
that philosophy can do well. Completed shortly before Donald
Davidson's death at 85, "Truth and Predication" brings full circle
a journey moving from the insights of Plato and Aristotle to the
problems of contemporary philosophy. In particular, Davidson,
countering many of his contemporaries, argues that the concept of
truth is not ambiguous, and that we need an effective theory of
truth in order to live well.
Davidson begins by harking back to an early interest in the
classics, and an even earlier engagement with the workings of
grammar; in the pleasures of diagramming sentences in grade school,
he locates his first glimpse into the mechanics of how we conduct
the most important activities in our life--such as declaring love,
asking directions, issuing orders, and telling stories. Davidson
connects these essential questions with the most basic and yet hard
to understand mysteries of language use--how we connect noun to
verb. This is a problem that Plato and Aristotle wrestled with, and
Davidson draws on their thinking to show how an understanding of
linguistic behavior is critical to the formulating of a workable
concept of truth.
Anchored in classical philosophy, "Truth and Predication"
nonetheless makes telling use of the work of a great number of
modern philosophers from Tarski and Dewey to Quine and Rorty.
Representing the very best of Western thought, it reopens the most
difficult and pressing of ancient philosophical problems, and
reveals them to be very much of our day.
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