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Truth (bearers) pluralism
As for many other properties, to understand the nature of truth attention should be paid to the kind of entities that are apt to bear it. In...
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Internal Categoricity, Truth and Determinacy
This paper focuses on the categoricity of arithmetic and determinacy of arithmetical truth. Several ‘internal’ categoricity results have been...
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Truth and its uses: deflationism and alethic pluralism
Deflationists believe that the question “What is truth?” should be answered not by means of a metaphysical inquiry into the nature of truth, but by...
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Naïve Truth and the Evidential Conditional
This paper develops the idea that valid arguments are equivalent to true conditionals by combining Kripke’s theory of truth with the evidential...
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A logical challenge to correlationism: the Church–Fitch paradox in Husserl’s account of fulfilment, truth, and meaning
Husserl’s theory of fulfilment conceives of empty acts, such as symbolic thought, and fulfilling acts, such as sensory perceptions, in a strict...
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Truth in Metaphor: an Exploration into Indian Aesthetics
Meaning in literary texts such as poetry and novel etc., is not determined on the basis of a literal understanding of the words in it, but through a...
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Diaphonic pluralism: from truth pluralism to disagreement pluralism
In this paper, I offer a pluralistic framework for disagreement and I develop a strategy to account for the varieties of disagreement on the basis of...
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Higher-Order Logic and Disquotational Truth
Truth predicates are widely believed to be capable of serving a certain logical or quasi-logical function. There is little consensus, however, on the...
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Looking across languages: Anglocentrism, cross-linguistic experimental philosophy, and the future of inquiry about truth
Analytic debates about truth are wide-ranging, but certain key themes tend to crop up time and again. The three themes that we will examine in this...
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Thoughts and Truth
This chapter will extend the model developed in the last chapter to cover thoughts and truth and then use the model to give an account of belief...
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Neoclassical Logic, Cloisonnist Vagueness, Nonobjectual Truth
In a series of works, Alan Weir has suggested that the paradoxes are due not so much to the operational principles of classical logic, but to some of...
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Why a Gricean-style defense of the vacuous truth of counterpossibles won’t work, but a defense based on heuristics just might
Counterpossibles are counterfactuals with an impossible antecedent. According to the orthodox view of counterfactuals, all counterpossibles are...
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Cognitive Projects and the Trustworthiness of Positive Truth
The aim of this paper is twofold: first, I provide a cluster of theories of truth in classical logic that is (internally) consistent with global...
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Notes on Models of (Partial) Kripke–Feferman Truth
This article investigates models of axiomatizations related to the semantic conception of truth presented by Kripke (J Philos 72(19):690–716, 1975),...
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Disagreement, Points of View, and Truth-Relativism
Truth-relativism is the claim that the truth of statements is dependent on the context in which they are made. In this article, truth-relativism is...
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Definite totalities and determinate truth in conceptual structuralism
This article investigates the connection and dependence between the definiteness of the totalities involved in mathematical structures and the determinateness...
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Truth and Satisfaction: Frege Versus Tarski
In this chapter I discuss the philosophical presuppositions and consequences of Tarski’s and Frege’s approaches to truth. Tarski’s is the most...
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Non-deterministic Logic of Generalized Classical Truth Values
In this paper, we are going to combine two trends: non-deterministic logic and bi-facial logic of generalized truth values. Non-deterministic...
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Syntactic, Semantic, and Pragmatic Rules
For the sake of argument, suppose that the code model is right, communication is about transmitting information, and language is merely a code, a...
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Valuation Semantics for First-Order Logics of Evidence and Truth
This paper introduces the logic Q L E T F , a quantified extension of the logic of evidence and truth L E T F , together with a corresponding sound and...