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Bare Facts and Naked Truths - A New Correspondence Theory of Truth (Paperback)
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Bare Facts and Naked Truths - A New Correspondence Theory of Truth (Paperback)
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The very idea of truth as a substantial and meaningful concept has
been under attack recently from advocates of New Age and postmodern
theories. In this book Englebretsen defends the notions of truth
and objectivity as key to the scientific view of the natural world
and presents an original defence of the 'commonsense'
correspondence theory of truth. Englebretsen's approach overcomes
the traditional difficulties of correspondence theories of truth
with providing adequate and convincing accounts of truth-bearers,
truth-makers and the correspondence relation between them by taking
truth-bearers to be propositions and facts as constitutive
properties of the world. This accessibly written book surveys all
of the major competing theories of truth (coherence, pragmatic,
redundancy, semantic, deflationary, disquotational, minimalist)
before formulating the new defence of the correspondence theory and
then exploring the consequences of the theory for issues in
epistemology and ontology. The book concludes by showing how the
idea of 'propositional depth' can be used to dissolve the Liar
paradoxes.
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