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Truth and Words (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,260
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Truth and Words (Paperback): Gary Ebbs

Truth and Words (Paperback)

Gary Ebbs

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To clarify and facilitate our inquiries we need to define a disquotational truth predicate that we are directly licensed to apply not only to our own sentences as we use them now, but also to other speakers' sentences and our own sentences as we used them in the past. The conventional wisdom is that there can be no such truth predicate. For it appears that the only instances of the disquotational pattern that we are directly licensed to accept are those that define "is true" for our own sentences as we use them now. Gary Ebbs shows that this appearance is illusory. He constructs an account of words that licenses us to rely not only on formal (spelling-based) identifications of our own words, but also on our non-deliberative practical identifications of other speakers' words and of our own words as we used them in the past. To overturn the conventional wisdom about disquotational truth, Ebbs argues, we need only combine this account of words with our disquotational definitions of truth for sentences as we use them now. The result radically transforms our understanding of truth and related topics, including anti-individualism, self-knowledge, and the intersubjectivity of logic.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: April 2011
First published: June 2011
Authors: Gary Ebbs
Dimensions: 235 x 156 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-969226-2
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Philosophy of language
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Logic
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Logic
LSN: 0-19-969226-2
Barcode: 9780199692262

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