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Truth and Ontology (Hardcover, New)
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Truth and Ontology (Hardcover, New)
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That there are no white ravens is true because there are no white
ravens. and so there is a sense in which that truth "depends on the
world." But this sort of dependence is trivial. After all, it does
not imply that there is anything that is that truth's "truthmaker."
Nor does it imply that something exists to which that truth
corresponds. Nor does it imply that there are properties whose
exemplification grounds that truth.
Trenton Merricks explores whether and how truth depends
substantively on the world or on things or on being. And he takes a
careful look at philosophical debates concerning, among other
things, modality, time, and dispositions. He looks at these debates
because any account of truth's substantive dependence on being has
implications for them. And these debates likewise have implications
for how and whether truth depends on being. Along the way, Merricks
makes a number of new points about each of these debates that are
of independent interest, of interest apart from the question of
truth's dependence on being.
Truth and Ontology concludes that some truths do not depend on
being in any substantive way at all. One result of this conclusion
is that it is a mistake to oppose a philosophical theory merely
because it violates truth's alleged substantive dependence on
being. Another result is that the correspondence theory of truth is
false and, more generally, that truth itself is not a relation of
any sort between truth-bearers and that which "makes them true."
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