What is Truth?Cambridge University Press, 1976 - 102 páginas A study in philosophical logic of the meaning of 'true'. Dr Williams demonstrates the shortcomings of various analyses which interpret 'true' as a predicate or truth as a relational property, and clears up a number of important points about propositions, quantification, definite descriptions and correspondence. This 'deflationary metaphysics' is interwoven with a positive theory of his own, which seeks to develop ideas about the late Arthur Prior. The work is marked throughout by great clarity, precision and thoroughness. |
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HOW SIMPLE IS TRUTH? I | 1 |
PREDICATING TRUTH | 16 |
TRUTHS | 32 |
Kneales explanation of the redundancy of It is true that | 43 |
ΙΟ The verifier of a proposition containing What the postman | 58 |
What Percy says like What the postman brought pre | 69 |
CORRESPONDENCE | 74 |
List of inset numbered expressions discussed | 97 |
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