Principles of Truth : : [conference "Truth, Necessity and Provability", which was held in Leuven, Belgium, from 18 to 20 November 1999] / / ed. by Volker Halbach, Leon Horsten.

On the one hand, the concept of truth is a major research subject in analytic philosophy. On the other hand, mathematical logicians have developed sophisticated logical theories of truth and the paradoxes. Recent developments in logical theories of the semantical paradoxes are highly relevant for ph...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Philosophy 2000 - 2014
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Edition:2nd ed.
Language:English
Series:Epistemische Studien / Epistemic Studies : Philosophy of Science, Cognition and Mind , 1
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Physical Description:1 online resource (244 p.) :; Num. figs.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Contemporary Methods for Investigating the Concept of Truth An Introduction
  • Is There a Problem about the Deflationary Theory of Truth?
  • A Defense of Minimalism
  • Modalized Disquotationalism
  • Deflation and Conservation
  • Metaworlds: A Possible-Worlds Semantics for Truth
  • Ramsey and the Correspondence Theory
  • Truth, Provability, and Naive Criteria
  • Partial Truth
  • An Axiomatic Investigation of Provability as a Primitive Predicate
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Persons
  • Subject Index
  • Notes on the Contributors