Global Anti-realism (Avebury Series in Philosophy)

by James O Young

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This text seeks to provide an answer to the perennial question "what is truth"? According to the global anti-realist the trust conditions of all classes of sentences are detectable by speakers. The author argues that the only way to be a global anti-realist is to maintain that the truth conditions of all sentences are the conditions under which they cohere with a system of beliefs. Global anti-realism is a form of coherence theory of truth. Realists are committed to some form of correspondence theory. Both camps are opposed to deflationary accounts of truth according to which truth is not a property of sentences. This book examines the arguments for and against anti-realism and traces its consequences and metaphilosophical implications.
  • ISBN10 1859720587
  • ISBN13 9781859720585
  • Publish Date 14 February 1995
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 21 April 2005
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Imprint Avebury
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 168
  • Language English