Basic Questions on Truth
The task of the book is not to give a survey of the main theories on truth found in the literature. There are several books available which do this: The one of David for Deflationist (and Disquotational) Theories of Truth; that of Chapuis for Revision The
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Episteme A SERIES IN THE FOUNDATIONAL, METHODOLOGICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, SOCIOLOGICAL, AND POLITICAL ASPECTS OF THE SCIENCES, PURE AND APPLIED
VOLUME 24 Editor: Mario Bunge Foundations and Philosophy of Science Unit, McGill University Advisory Editorial Board: Raymond Boudon, Sociology, Maison des Sciences de I 'Homme, Paris George Bugliarello, Engineering, Polytechnic Institute ofNew York Bruno Fritsch, Professor emeritus ofthe Swiss Federal Institute ofTechnology, Zurich Ivan T. Frolov, Philosophy and Social Sciences, USSR Academy ofScience, Moscow Erwin Hiebert, History of Science, Harvard University Philip Kitcher, Philosophy, University of California, Davis Nicholas Rescher, Philosophy, University ofPittsburgh Michael Ruse, Philosophy and Zoology, University of Guelph Raimo Tuomela, Philosophy, University ofHelsinki Paul Weingartner, Philosophy, Salzburg University
The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.
PAUL WEINGARTNER
Basic Questions on Truth
Springer Science+Business Media, B.V.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Weingartner, Paul. Basic questions on truth 1by Paul Weingartner. p. em. •• (Episteme ; v. 24) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-94-10-5779-0 ISBN 978-94-011-4034-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-011-4034-8 1. Truth. I. Title. II. Episteme (Dordrecht, Netherlands) ; v. 24. BCI71 .W432OO0 121-de21
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Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements
vii
CHAPTER ONE
Is it appropriate to ask "What is truth?" CHAPTER TWO
Is it appropriate to ask for the meaning or for the definition of the expression "truth", "the true" or "true"?
7
CHAPTER THREE
Is the expression true superfluous and/or not a predicate?
17
CHAPTER FOUR
Can the rules of a deductive system be called true or false?
29
CHAPTER FIVE
Are definitions true or false?
45
CHAPTER SIX
Judgements, propositions, sentences
80
CHAPTER SEVEN
Is a sentence true iff it corresponds to reality
108
CHAPTER EIGHT
Are there negative facts or properties?
154
CHAPTER NINE
Can a false theory be nearer to the truth than another false theory?
174
CHAPTER TEN
Ens et verum convertuntur?
195
References
207
Name index
223
Subject index
226
Preface
The task of the book is not to give a survey of the main theories on truth found in the literature. There are several books available which do this: The one of David for Deflationist (and Disquotational) Theories of Truth; that of Chapuis for Revision Theories of Truth; that of Kirkham for Corresponde
