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1 online resource (x, 310 pages) |
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"Unsettledness" in a bivalent language : a modest, nonepistemic idea / JC Beall -- Vagueness and truth / Mark Colyvan -- Biological realisms / Michael Devitt -- Pleonastic Platonism / Alan Musgrave -- Anomalous monism / John Heil -- On the metaphysical implications of some epistemological commonplaces / Frank Jackson -- Mathematical Platonism / J.J.C. Smart -- On creeping minimalism and the nature of minimal entities / Luca Moretti -- Hempel's dilemma / Daniel Stoljar -- From reality to truth : the case of electrons and electron theory / Robert Nola -- Reflections on the gem / Fred Kroon -- On the sortal dependency of individuation thesis / Paul Snowdon -- Truthmakers for what? / D.H. Mellor |
| Summary |
Questions about truth and questions about reality are intimately connected. One can ask whether€numbers exist€by asking "Are there numbers?" But one can also ask what arguably amounts to the same question by asking "Is the sentence 'There are numbers' true?" Such semantic ascent implies that reality can be investigated by investigating our true sentences. This line of thought was€dominant in€twentieth century philosophy, but is now beginning to be called into question. In From Truth to Reality, Heather Dyke brings together some of the foremost metaphysi |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-303) and index |
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Truth.
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Reality.
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truth.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Metaphysics.
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Reality
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Truth
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Metaphysik
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Sprachphilosophie
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Logik
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Waarheid.
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Electronic book
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Dyke, Heather.
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| ISBN |
9780203869093 |
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0203869095 |
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9781135246914 |
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1135246912 |
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