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  title info:
    title: Theories of truth
    sub title: a critical introduction
  name:
    name part: Kirkham, Richard L.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    place:
      place term: Cambridge, Mass
    publisher: MIT Press
    date issued: 1995, ©1992
    date issued: 1995
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xi, 401 pages)
  abstract: Theories of Truth provides a clear, critical introduction to one of the most difficult areas of philosophy. It surveys all of the major philosophical theories of truth, presenting the crux of the issues involved at a level accessible to nonexperts yet in a manner sufficiently detailed and original to be of value to professional scholars. Kirkham's systematic treatment and meticulous explanations of terminology ensure that readers will come away from this book with a comprehensive general understanding of one of philosophy's thorniest set of topics. Included are discussions of the correspondence, coherence, pragmatic, semantic, performative, redundancy, appraisal, and truth-as-justification theories. There are also chapters or sections of chapters on the liar paradox, three-valued logic, Field's critique of Tarski, Davidson's program, Dummett's theory of linguistic competence, satisfaction, recursion, the extension/intension distinction, and an explanation of how theories of justification, properly understood, differ from theories of truth. A persistent theme is that philosophers have too often failed to recognize that not all theories of truth are intended to answer the same question. When the various questions are made distinct, it is apparent that many of the "debates" in this field are really cases of philosophers talking past one another. There is much less disagreement within the field than has commonly been thought.
  note: Richard L. Kirkham.
  note: "A Bradford book."
  note: Originally published: ©1992.
  subject:
    topic: Truth
  subject:
    topic: Knowledge, Theory of
  subject:
    topic: COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY/General
  classification: BC171 .K55 1995eb
  classification: 121
  identifier: 9780262277198
  identifier: 0262277190
  identifier: 0585038236
  identifier: 9780585038230
  identifier: 0262111675
  identifier: 9780262111676
  identifier: 0262611082
  identifier: 9780262611084
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: OCoLC-P
    record creation date: 010307
    record change date: 20221121162339.8
    record identifier: in00004600851
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng