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The Taming of the True (Hardcover)
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The Taming of the True (Hardcover)
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The Taming of the True poses a broad challenge to the realist views
of meaning and truth that have been prominent in recent philosophy.
Neil Tennant starts with a careful critical survey of the realism
debate, guiding the reader through its complexities; he then
presents a sustained defence of the anti-realist view that every
truth is knowable in principle, and that grasp of meaning must be
able to be made manifest. Sceptical arguments for the indeterminacy
or non-factuality of meaning are countered; and the much-maligned
notion of analyticity is reinvestigated and rehabilitated. Tennant
goes on to show that an effective logical system can be based on
his anti-realist view; the logical system that he advocates is
justified as a body of analytic truths and inferential principles.
Having laid the foundations for global semantic anti-realism,
Tennant moves to the world of empirical understanding, and gives an
account of the cognitive credentials of natural scientific
discourse. He shows that the same canon of constructive and
relevant inference suffices both for intuitionistic mathematics and
for empirical science. This is an ambitious and contentious book
which aims to reform not only theory of meaning, but our deductive
practices across a broad range of discourses.
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