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Truth

Truth

Engel, Pascal

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Series: Central Problems of Philosophy, Book 4

PhilosophyLogic

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ISBN10: 0773524622
ISBN13: 9780773524620
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: Sep 18 2002
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.70
Language: English

After a brief presentation of the classical conceptions of truth - correspondence, coherence, verificationist, and pragmatist theories - the book focuses on the debate between those who favour substantive conceptions of this classical kind and those who advocate so-called minimalist and deflationist conceptions and deny that truth can be any more than a thin concept, carrying no metaphysical weight.

Engel argues that, although the minimalist conception of truth is basically right, it does not follow that truth can be eliminated from our philosophical thinking, as is claimed by some radical deflationists. In particular, he shows that some deflationist views have a definitively relativist and postmodernist ring and should be rejected. Even if a metaphysically substantive theory of truth has little chance to succeed, he argues, truth plays a central role as a norm or guiding value of our rational inquiries and practices in the philosophy of knowledge and in ethics.

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