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Truth / edited by Simon Blackburn and Keith Simmons.
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New York :: Oxford University Press,
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1999.
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vi, 406 pages ; 21 cm
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-404) and index.
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Monograph
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0198752504 9780198752509 0198752512 9780198752516;
Abstract:
On truth and copying / F.H. Bradley -- The nature of truth / H.H. Joachim -- Pragmatism's conception of truth / William James -- William James's conception of truth / Bertand Russell -- The thought: a logical inquiry / Gottlob Frege -- On facts and propositions
/ F.P. Ramsey -- Philosophical extracts / Ludwig Wittgenstein -- The semantic conception of truth and the foundations of semantics / Alfred Tarski -- Philosophy of logic / W.V. Quine -- Truth / J.L. Austin -- Truth / P.F. Strawson -- Unfair to facts / J.L Austin -- Truth: a traditional debate reviewed / Crispin Wright -- The minimalist conception of truth / Paul Horwich -- Of what kind of thing is truth a property? / Michael Dummett -- A critique of deflationism / Anil Gupta -- The folly of trying to define truth / Donald Davidson -- Pragmatism, Davidson, and truth / Richard Rorty -- Deflationist views of meaning and content / Hartry Field.

"The story of an uneasy detente, the persistence of one man's awkward rapport with fate, The Truth is about giving up on the idea of trying to resolve your problems. About laughing at them because they're going to be funny to someone, someday, anyway. About finding the thread that connects everything - and pulling it, once and for all. About when savouring the truth, as unpleasant as it may be, is the only thing that gets you through the night. Maybe. Or, maybe not ..."--Jacket.
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