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What Truth Is (Hardcover)
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What Truth Is (Hardcover)
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Mark Jago presents and defends a novel theory of what truth is, in
terms of the metaphysical notion of truthmaking. This is the
relation which holds between a truth and some entity in the world,
in virtue of which that truth is true. By coming to an
understanding of this relation, he argues, we gain better insight
into the metaphysics of truth. The first part of the book discusses
the property being true, and how we should understand it in terms
of truthmaking. The second part focuses on truthmakers, the worldly
entities which make various kinds of truths true, and how they do
so. Jago argues for a metaphysics of states of affairs, which
account for things having properties and standing in relations. The
third part analyses the logic and metaphysics of the truthmaking
relation itself, and links it to the metaphysical concept of
grounding. The final part discusses consequences of the theory for
language and logic. Jago shows how the theory delivers a novel and
useful theory of propositions, the entities which are true or
false, depending on how things are. A notable feature of this
approach is that it avoids the Liar paradox and other puzzling
paradoxes of truth.
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