Truth: Its Nature, Criteria and Conditions / / Haig Khatchadourian.

Truth: Its criteria and conditions is an in-depth critical-and-constructive inquiry in almost equal measure. The theories of the nature of empirical truth critically considered include two forms of the traditional correspondence theory; truth as appraisal; truth as identity of proposition and truth;...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]
©2011
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis , 42
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Physical Description:1 online resource (112 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • Chapter 1. The Traditional Correspondence Theory of Truth
  • Chapter 2. A Modified Correspondence Theory of Truth
  • Chapter 3. “Truth as Identity of Fact and Proposition”
  • Chapter 4. “Truth as Appraisal”
  • Chapter 5. Facts
  • Chapter 6. “Emotive Theory of Truth”
  • Chapter 7. Nicholas Rescher’s Coherence Theory of Truth
  • Chapter 8. Standard Conditions, Preconditions and Presuppositions, and Performative & Constative Uses, of ‘True’ and ‘False’
  • Chapter 9. Conditions of Cognitive & Conditions of Performative Uses of Truth Statements
  • Chapter 10. Appraisive/ Evaluative Uses of ‘True’ and ‘False’
  • INDEX
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS