The concept of truth and competing philosophical theories on what truth amounts to have an important place in contemporary philosophy. The aim of this chapter is to give a synopsis of …

If I make up the definition of a mammal, and then, after inspecting a camel, declare “look, a mammal,” I have indeed brought a truth to light in this way, but it is a truth of limited value.

Misak develops and defends a lucid, well-informed and attractive version of Peirce’s pragmatist theory of truth and convincingly shows that if this theory is correct, non-cognitivism in morality …

The Central Theorems of Kripke’s Theory of Truth We start with an interpreted language ‹, and we add a new predicate “Tr,” which is supposed to represent the set of true sentences of the …

Apr 3, 2020 · The questions, “What is truth?” and “How to know the truth?” are as ancient as man himself. In this unit we will try to make a survey of the theories of truth that the philosophers …

Few subjects have received more philosophical scrutiny than the nature of truth. The attention is warranted by the centrality of truth to theorizing in many fields and the problems that afflict …

Today, by “an epistemic theory of truth” we usually understand a the-ory that reduces “truth” to some narrowly epistemic notion, such as “justification”, “evidence”, “acceptance at the ideal …