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The epistemic lightness of truth : deflationism and its logic /
This book analyses and defends the deflationist claim that there is nothing deep about our notion of truth. According to this view, truth is a 'light' and innocent concept, devoid of any essence which could be revealed by scientific inquiry. Cezary Cieśliński considers this claim in ligh...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
[2017]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Preliminaries; 1.1 Peano Arithmetic; 1.2 Model Theory; 1.3 Conservativity; 1.4 Truth; 1.5 Reflection Principles; 2 Approaches to Truth; 2.1 Model-Theoretic versus Axiomatic Approach; 2.2 Approaches to Truth: Aims and Assessments; Part I Disquotation; 3 Disquotational Theories; 3.1 Typed Disquotational Theories; 3.2 Untyped Disquotation; 4 Why Do We Need Disquotational Truth?; 4.1 Expressing Generalisations; 5 The Generalisation Problem; 5.1 Horwich's First Solution
- 5.2 Horwich's Second SolutionPart II Conservativity; 6 (Non)Conservativity of Disquotation; 7 CT- and CT: Conservativity Properties; 8 Other Compositional Truth Theories; 8.1 The Systems of Kripke-Feferman and Friedman-Sheard; 8.2 Positive Truth with Internal Induction for Total Formulas; 9 Conservativity: Philosophical Motivations; 9.1 Semantic Conservativity; 9.2 Syntactic Conservativity; 10 Maximal Conservative Theories; 11 The Conservativeness Argument; 11.1 Formulations; 11.2 Reactions to the Conservativeness Argument; Part III Reflection Principles