Truth's Debt to Value

by David Weissman

Book Overview

Is something true because we believe it to be so or because it is true? How can a culturally bound community achieve scientific knowledge when values, attitudes, and desires shape its beliefs? In this book an eminent philosopher considers various schools of thought on the nature of truth. David Weissman argues that truth exists in the correspondence between statement and fact: what can be said about our world can be measured against a reality that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300124805
• ISBN13: 9780300124804
• Release Date: July 1993
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"