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Replacing Truth (Hardcover, New)
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Replacing Truth (Hardcover, New)
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Kevin Scharp proposes an original theory of the nature and logic of
truth on which truth is an inconsistent concept that should be
replaced for certain theoretical purposes. Replacing Truth opens
with an overview of work on the nature of truth (e.g.,
correspondence theories, deflationism), work on the liar and
related paradoxes, and a comprehensive scheme for combining these
two literatures into a unified study of the concept truth. Scharp
argues that truth is best understood as an inconsistent concept,
and proposes a detailed theory of inconsistent concepts that can be
applied to the case of truth. Truth also happens to be a useful
concept, but its inconsistency inhibits its utility; as such, it
should be replaced with consistent concepts that can do truth's job
without giving rise to paradoxes. To this end, Scharp offers a pair
of replacements, which he dubs ascending truth and descending
truth, along with an axiomatic theory of them and a new kind of
possible-worlds semantics for this theory. As for the nature of
truth, he goes on to develop Davidson's idea that it is best
understood as the core of a measurement system for rational
phenomena (e.g., belief, desire, and meaning). The book finishes
with a semantic theory that treats truth predicates as
assessment-sensitive (i.e., their extension is relative to a
context of assessment), and a demonstration of how this theory
solves the problems posed by the liar and other paradoxes.
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