Truth as One and Many (inbunden)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Utgivningsdatum
2011-03-31
Förlag
Oxford University Press
Dimensioner
213 x 140 x 13 mm
Vikt
272 g
ISBN
9780199596300

Truth as One and Many

av Michael P Lynch, Michael P Lynch
Häftad,  Engelska, 2011-03-31
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What is truth? Michael Lynch defends a bold new answer to this question. Traditional theories of truth hold that truth has only a single uniform nature. All truths are true in the same way. More recent deflationary theories claim that truth has no nature at all; the concept of truth is of no real philosophical importance. In this concise and clearly written book, Lynch argues that we should reject both these extremes and hold that truth is a functional property. To understand truth we must understand what it does, its function in our cognitive economy. Once we understand that, we'll see that this function can be performed in more than one way. And that in turn opens the door to an appealing pluralism: beliefs about the concrete physical world needn't be true in the same way as our thoughts about matters -- like morality -- where the human stain is deepest.

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Michael P. Lynch is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.

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