Truth and Truthmakers

by D.M. Armstrong

Book Overview

Truths are determined not by what we believe, but by the way the world is. Or so realists about truth believe. Philosophers call such theories correspondence theories of truth. Truthmaking theory, which now has many adherents among contemporary philosophers, is a recent development of a realist theory of truth, and in this book, first published in 2004, D. M. Armstrong offers the first full-length study of this theory. He examines its applications...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521547237
• ISBN13: 9780521547239
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.5"