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A Realist Conception of Truth (Paperback, New edition)
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A Realist Conception of Truth (Paperback, New edition)
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One of the most important Anglo-American philosophers of our time
here joins the current philosophical debate about the nature of
truth with a work likely to claim a place at the very center of the
contemporary philosophical literature on the subject. William P.
Alston formulates and defends a realist conception of truth, which
he calls alethic realism (from "aletheia", Greek for "truth"). This
idea holds that the truth value of a statement (belief or
proposition) depends on whether what the statement is about is as
the statement says it is. Although this concept may seem quite
obvious, Alston says, many thinkers hold views incompatible with it
- and much of his book is devoted to a powerful critique of those
views. Michael Dummett and Hilary Putnam are two of the prominent
and widely influential contemporary philosophers whose anti-realist
ideas he attacks. Alston discusses different realist accounts of
truth, examining what they do and do not imply. He distinguishes
his version, which he characterizes as "minimalist", from various
"deflationary" accounts, all of which deny that asserting the truth
of a proposition attributes a property of truth to it. He also
examines alethic realism in relation to a variety of metaphysical
realisms. Finally, Alston argues for the importance - theoretical
and practical - of assessing the truth value of statements,
beliefs, and propositions.
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