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Metainferential Theories of Truth
A central feature of metainferential logics is that they can be expanded with a transparent truth predicate.
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Truth dependence against transparent truth
Beall’s (e.g., 2009, 2021) transparency theory of truth is recognized as a prominent, deflationist solution to the liar paradox. However, it has been...
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Irreplaceable truth
Conceptual engineers are always on the lookout for concepts that can be improved upon or replaced. Kevin Scharp has argued that the concept truth is...
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On Cut-Elimination Arguments for Axiomatic Theories of Truth
As is mentioned in Leigh ( Journal of Symbol Logic 80(3):845-865, 2015), it is an open problem whether for several axiomatic theories of truth,...
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The Truth in Social Media
In the last chapter of In the beginning was the deed: realism and moralism in political argument , Williams raised the question of truthfulness in...
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A Note on the Unprovability of Consistency in Formal Theories of Truth
Why is it that even strong formal theories of truth fail to prove their own consistency? Although Field ( Mind, 115 , 459,
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Experimenting with Truth
In the last decade Robert Barnard and Joseph Ulatowski have conducted a number of experimental studies in order to better understand the ordinary...
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Truth and Truth-Recognition
This chapter is concerned with the relation between the intuitive notions of truth and evidence or truth-recognition. While the intuitionists grant...
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Truth-Ratios, Evidential Fit, and Deferring to Informants with Low Error Probabilities
Suppose that an informant (test, expert, device, perceptual system, etc.) is unlikely to err when pronouncing on a particular subject matter. When...
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The Practical Bearings of Truth as Correspondence
Pragmatists are usually very antagonistic toward the correspondence theory of truth. They contend that the evidence-transcendent standard entailed by...
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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 (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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Truth as none and many
Truth pluralists say that there are many ways to be true. Aaron Cotnoir (“Pluralism and Paradox” in: Pedersen and Wright (eds) Truth and pluralism:...
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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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Comparative success and empirical progress without approximate truth
This paper argues against a particular version of the inference from the success of a scientific theory to the claim that the theory must be...
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Truth pluralism without domains
Truth pluralists say that truth-bearers in different “discourses”, “domains”, “domains of discourse”, or “domains of inquiry” are apt to be true in...
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On the origin of conspiracy theories
Conspiracy theories are rather a popular topic these days, and a lot has been written on things like the meaning of conspiracy theory , whether it’s...
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On Semantic and Ontic Truth
It is argued that we should distinguish ontic truth––the True––that Frege claimed is sui generis and indefinable, from the semantic concept, for...
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Nāgārjuna, Madhyamaka, and truth
In reading Nāgārjuna’s Mūlamadhyamakakārikā , one is struck by Nāgārjuna’s separation of conventional truth and ultimate truth. At the most basic...
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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...