The Modest, or Quantificational, Account of Truth
Truth is a stable, epistemically unconstrained property of propositions, and the concept of truth admits of a non-reductive explanation: that, in a nutshell, is the view for which I argued in Conceptions of Truth. In this paper I try to explain that explanation in a more detailed and, hopefully, mor...
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| description | Truth is a stable, epistemically unconstrained property of propositions, and the concept of truth admits of a non-reductive explanation: that, in a nutshell, is the view for which I argued in Conceptions of Truth. In this paper I try to explain that explanation in a more detailed and, hopefully, more perspicuous way than I did in Ch. 6.2 of the book and to defend its use of sentential quantification against some of the criticisms it has has come in for. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b4700d3fdaa549fcb1f4a25a47f2f2892022-12-21T18:55:26ZdeuUniversity of TartuStudia Philosophica Estonica1406-00001736-58992008-12-011.2122168The Modest, or Quantificational, Account of TruthWolfgang KünneTruth is a stable, epistemically unconstrained property of propositions, and the concept of truth admits of a non-reductive explanation: that, in a nutshell, is the view for which I argued in Conceptions of Truth. In this paper I try to explain that explanation in a more detailed and, hopefully, more perspicuous way than I did in Ch. 6.2 of the book and to defend its use of sentential quantification against some of the criticisms it has has come in for.http://www.spe.ut.ee/ojs/index.php/spe/article/download/31/16truthnon-nominal quantification |
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| title_short | The Modest, or Quantificational, Account of Truth |
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