Truth as One and Many
1st Edition
Published on 26. March 2009
978-0-19-161576-4 (ISBN)
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What is truth? Michael Lynch defends a bold new answer to this question. Traditional theories of truth hold that truth has only a single uniform nature. All truths are true in the same way. More recent deflationary theories claim that truth has no nature at all, the concept of truth is of no real philosophical importance. In this concise and clearly written book, Lynch argues that we should reject both these extremes and hold that truth is a functional property. Tounderstand truth we must understand what it does, its function in our cognitive economy. Once we understand that, we'll see that this function can be performed in more than one way. And that in turn opens the door to an appealing pluralism: beliefs about the concrete physical world needn't be true inthe same way as our thoughts about matters -- like morality -- where the human stain is deepest.
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Michael P. Lynch
Truth as One and Many
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03/2009
Oxford University Press
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