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When truth gives out /

In this accessible book, Mark Richard argues that the performative and expressive can trump the semantic, making truth the wrong dimension for evaluating a sentence. He explains what it is for truth to be relative, rebuts objections to relativism, assesses objections to expressivism, and gives a nov...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Richard, Mark
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Series:Oxford scholarship online.
Oxford scholarship online. Philosophy module.
Subjects:
Truth.
Vérité.
truth.
08.34 philosophy of language.
PHILOSOPHY > Epistemology.
Truth
Wahrheit
Sprachphilosophie
Relativism.
Wahrheit.
Sprachphilosophie.
Sanning.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:In this accessible book, Mark Richard argues that the performative and expressive can trump the semantic, making truth the wrong dimension for evaluating a sentence. He explains what it is for truth to be relative, rebuts objections to relativism, assesses objections to expressivism, and gives a novel account of matters of taste.
Physical Description:1 online resource (184 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780199239955
0199239959
9780191553707
0191553700
9780191716881
019171688X