What Truth Is
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 24 May 2018
- ISBN 9780198823810
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages370 pages
- Size 223x146x27 mm
- Weight 600 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Mark Jago offers a new metaphysical account of truth. He argues that to be true is to be made true by the existence of a suitable worldly entity. Truth arises as a relation between a proposition - the content of our sayings, thoughts, beliefs, and so on - and an entity (or entities) in the world.
MoreLong description:
Mark Jago presents and defends a novel theory of what truth is, in terms of the metaphysical notion of truthmaking. This is the relation which holds between a truth and some entity in the world, in virtue of which that truth is true. By coming to an understanding of this relation, he argues, we gain better insight into the metaphysics of truth. The first part of the book discusses the property being true, and how we should understand it in terms of truthmaking. The second part focuses on truthmakers, the worldly entities which make various kinds of truths true, and how they do so. Jago argues for a metaphysics of states of affairs, which account for things having properties and standing in relations. The third part analyses the logic and metaphysics of the truthmaking relation itself, and links it to the metaphysical concept of grounding. The final part discusses consequences of the theory for language and logic. Jago shows how the theory delivers a novel and useful theory of propositions, the entities which are true or false, depending on how things are. A notable feature of this approach is that it avoids the Liar paradox and other puzzling paradoxes of truth.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction
Truth and Making True
Truth: Substantial or Insubstantial?
Arguments for Truthmaking
Truthmaker Maximalism
Truthmakers
States of Affairs
Everything and Nothing
The Truthmaking Relation
Truthmaking and Grounding
The Logic of Truthmaking
Propositions and Paradoxes
The Nature of Propositions
Dealing with Liars
Appendix: Proof Theory
