Truth and Words

by Gary Ebbs

Book Overview

To clarify and facilitate our inquiries we need to define a disquotational truth predicate that we are directly licensed to apply not only to our own sentences as we use them now, but also to other speakers' sentences and our own sentences as we used them in the past. The conventional wisdom is that there can be no such truth predicate. For it appears that the only instances of the disquotational pattern that we are directly licensed to accept are...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199557934
• ISBN13: 9780199557936
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"