Truth and Truth-making.

Truth depends in some sense on reality. But it is a rather delicate matter to spell this intuition out in a plausible and precise way. According to the theory of truth-making this intuition implies that either every truth or at least every truth of a certain class of truths has a so-called truth-mak...

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Main Author: Lowe, E. J.
Other Authors: Rami, A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014.
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505 0 |a Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Contributors; 1. Introduction: truth and truth-making; Part I: Setting the stage; 2. Truth and the truth-maker principle in 1921; 3. Truth-makers; 4. Truth-makers, entailment and necessity; 5. Postscript to ""Truth-makers, entailment and necessity""; 6. Truth-making and difference-making; 7. The general theory of truth-making; Part II: The current debate; 8. Truth-making and correspondence; 9. Facts and relations: the matter of ontology and of truth-making; 10. Being and truth; 11. An essentialist approach to truth-making. 
505 8 |a 12. Are there irreducibly relational facts?13. Why truth-makers; 14. Postscript to ""Why truth-makers""; Bibliography; Index. 
520 |a Truth depends in some sense on reality. But it is a rather delicate matter to spell this intuition out in a plausible and precise way. According to the theory of truth-making this intuition implies that either every truth or at least every truth of a certain class of truths has a so-called truth-maker, an entity whose existence accounts for truth. This book aims to provide several ways of assessing the correctness of this controversial claim. This book presents a detailed introduction to the theory of truth-making, which outlines truth-maker relations, the ontological category of truth-making. 
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