Correspondence Theory of Truth - An Essay on the Metaphysics of Predication

Klappentext This work discusses metaphysical issues such as predication, facts and propositions. Zusammenfassung This work presents a version of the correspondence theory of truth based on Wittgenstein's Tractatus and Russell's theory of truth and discusses metaphysical issues such as predication! facts and propositions. It will interest those who study the realistic conception of truth and issues related to the correspondence theory of truth. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Universals, predication and truth; 2. The univocity of truth; 3. The correspondence theory for predicative sentences; 4. Russell's theory of truth and its principal problems; 5. How predicative beliefs correspond to the world; 6. The metaphysics of facts; 7. The metaphysics of propositions; 8. The correspondence theory and complex propositions; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: Andrew Newman, Andrew (University of Nebraska Newman, Newman Andrew
• Assisted by: Jonathan Dancy (Editor), Ernest Sosa (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.06.2002
• EAN: 9780521811392
• ISBN: 978-0-521-81139-2
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosoph; Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge