The concept of truth / Richard Campbell.
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Campbell, Richard James, 1939- (författare)
- ISBN 978-0-230-29785-2 (hardback)
- Abingdon, Oxon ; Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- Engelska x, 260 p.
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- Machine generated contents note: -- Preface -- Introduction: Truth in Trouble -- The Linguistic Conception of Truth -- The Functions Truth Serves -- Truth in Action -- Acting Truly -- The Genesis of Representations -- Acts of Assertion -- The Truth of Statements -- The Challenge of Sceptical Relativism -- Truth as Faithfulness -- Bibliography -- Index.
- "This book addresses the contemporary disillusion with truth, manifest in sceptical relativism. Contending that all contemporary theories of truth are too narrow, it argues for a novel conception of truth, by showing how error is implicated in the actions of all living things; and by analyzing uses of 'true' in non-linguistic contexts"--
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- Sanning -- filosofi (sao)
- Truth. (LCSH)
- PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology (bisacsh)
- PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body (bisacsh)
- PHILOSOPHY / General (bisacsh)
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- 121 (DDC)
- Ddb (kssb/8 (machine generated))
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