Focusing on Truth explores the question of what truth is, balancing
historical discussion with issue-orientated discussion. The book
offers a comprehensive survey of all the major theories of truth.
Dr Johnson investigates a number of closely related matters of
truth in his inquiry. What sorts of things are true or false? What
is attributed to them when they are said to be true or false? What
do facts have to do with truth? What can we learn from previous
theories? The book opens with an analysis of the coherence theory
of truth, and then the correspondence theory of truth, as developed
by Moore, Russell and Wittgenstein. Through a study of the semantic
questions of truth, the author reveals that an adequate theory of
truth must take account of the pragmatics of person, purpose and
circumstance. A full understanding of facts and truth bearers is
considered central to Johnson's criticism of the opposing truth
theories of J.L. Austin and P.F. Strawson. Drawing on the merits of
these theories and others, while identifying their deficiencies,
Johnson presents a new account of truth, based on the correlation
of referential foci and the use of linguistic conventions.
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