What is truth? Michael Lynch defends a bold new answer to this
question. Traditional theories of truth hold that truth has only a
single uniform nature. All truths are true in the same way. More
recent deflationary theories claim that truth has no nature at all;
the concept of truth is of no real philosophical importance. In
this concise and clearly written book, Lynch argues that we should
reject both these extremes and hold that truth is a functional
property. To understand truth we must understand what it does, its
function in our cognitive economy. Once we understand that, we'll
see that this function can be performed in more than one way. And
that in turn opens the door to an appealing pluralism: beliefs
about the concrete physical world needn't be true in the same way
as our thoughts about matters -- like morality -- where the human
stain is deepest.
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