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Leon Horsten investigates the relationship between formal theories of truth and contemporary philosophical approaches to truth. He unwinds the crystal maze of the nature of truth to unveil a unified theory.
Truth --- Deflationary theory. --- Deflationary theory of truth --- Deflationism --- PHILOSOPHY/General --- Deflationary theory --- Truth - Deflationary theory
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"In recent years coherence theories of law and adjudication have been extremely influential in legal scholarship. These theories significantly advance the case for coherentism in law. Nonetheless, in the field of coherence theory in law a number of problems remain. This ambitious new work makes the first concerted attempt to develop a coherence-based theory of legal reasoning, and in so doing addresses, or at least mitigates these problems. The book is organised in three parts. The first part provides a critical analysis of the main coherentist approaches to both normative and factual reasoning in law. The second part investigates coherence theory in a number of fields that are relevant to law: coherence theories of epistemic justification, coherentist approaches to belief revision and theory-choice, coherence theories of practical and moral reasoning, and coherence-based approaches to discourse interpretation. Taking this interdisciplinary analysis as a starting point, the third part develops a coherence-based model of legal reasoning. While this model builds upon the standard theory of legal reasoning, it also leads to rethinking some of the basic assumptions that characterise this theory, and suggests some lines along which it may be further developed. Thus, ultimately, the book not only improves upon the current state of coherence theory in law, but also contributes to the larger debate about how to articulate a theory of legal reasoning that results in better decision-making."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Law --- Jurisprudence --- Legal reasoning --- Methodology. --- Philosophy. --- Truth --- Coherence theory. --- Coherence theory of truth
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This book offers an introductory account of the central theories of truth. A wide range of theories, from those of correspondence and coherence to Tarski's semantic conception of truth are presented and assessed in order to profit from that which is of value in them. The authot proposes a new account which it is asserted is adequate to meet the legitimate demands made on the theory of truth.
Truth. --- Truth --- Coherence theory of truth --- Correspondence theory of truth --- Truth, Correspondence theory of --- Conviction --- Belief and doubt --- Philosophy --- Skepticism --- Certainty --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Pragmatism --- Correspondence theory. --- Coherence theory. --- Coherence theory --- Correspondence theory
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Metaphysics --- Theory of knowledge --- Truth --- Deflationary theory of truth --- Deflationism --- Deflationary theory --- Philosophy --- Speculative Philosophy --- Philosophy & Religion
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Explores the development of Chinese thought, highlighting its concern with questions of coherence.
Truth --- Philosophy, Chinese. --- Li. --- Coherence theory of truth --- Chinese philosophy --- Confucian ethics --- Ethics --- Philosophy, Confucian --- Coherence theory.
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Although philosophers have been concerned with truth since at least the age of Plato, the last thirty years have witnessed a veritable explosion of the philosophical debate on this topic. The touchpaper which lit the fuse for this was undoubtedly the Deflationist Renaissance (half a century after the seminal work of F.P. Ramsey) due, in the Seventies, both to the Quinean disquotational interpretation of the Tarskian truth definitions and to the development of the prosentential theory of truth.
Truth --- Conviction --- Belief and doubt --- Philosophy --- Skepticism --- Certainty --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Pragmatism --- Deflationary theory of truth --- Deflationism --- Deflationary theory. --- Philosophy.
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This book analyses and defends the deflationist claim that there is nothing deep about our notion of truth. According to this view, truth is a 'light' and innocent concept, devoid of any essence which could be revealed by scientific inquiry. Cezary Cieśliński considers this claim in light of recent formal results on axiomatic truth theories, which are crucial for understanding and evaluating the philosophical thesis of the innocence of truth. Providing an up-to-date discussion and original perspectives on this central and controversial issue, his book will be important for those with a background in logic who are interested in formal truth theories and in current philosophical debates about the deflationary conception of truth.
Truth. --- Conviction --- Belief and doubt --- Philosophy --- Skepticism --- Certainty --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Pragmatism --- Truth --- Deflationary theory of truth --- Deflationism --- Deflationary theory.
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Coherence is a burgeoning topic of research. Diverse methodologies have been applied to shed light on the topic and its relevance to fundamental questions throughout philosophy. The collection brings together the full scope of this research in a single volume. The first group of essays attack the core topic of the book: coherence. Authors in this section take up the challenging and controversial task of measuring the coherence of an information set, while others criticize this endeavor. The second group of papers in the collection relate this foundational research to a wide array of epistemological and metaphysical challenges. For example, some papers consider the relationship between truth and coherence. Is coherence truth conducive, and if yes, under which conditions? A related issue taken up in this volume is the connection between coherence and testimony. Are we justified in believing coherent reports by independent, though only partially reliable witnesses more than a single report? If yes, under which conditions does this claim hold true? By the end of the book, the reader should have a comprehensive understanding of topic of coherence, the controversy surrounding it, and its implications across the discipline of philosophy.
Truth --- Philosophy. --- Coherence theory. --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Coherence theory of truth --- Philosophy (General). --- Philosophy, modern. --- Philosophy, general. --- Modern Philosophy. --- Modern philosophy --- Coherence theory --- Modern philosophy.
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This book is an essay on how people make sense of each other and the world they live in. Making sense is the activity of fitting something puzzling into a coherent pattern of mental representations that include concepts, beliefs, goals, and actions. Paul Thagard proposes a general theory of coherence as the satisfaction of multiple interacting constraints, and discusses the theory's numerous psychological and philosophical applications. Much of human cognition can be understood in terms of coherence as constraint satisfaction, and many of the central problems of philosophy can be given coherence-based solutions. Thagard shows how coherence can help to unify psychology and philosophy, particularly when addressing questions of epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, politics, and aesthetics. He also shows how coherence can integrate cognition and emotion.
Theory of knowledge --- Truth --- Speculative Philosophy --- Philosophy --- Philosophy & Religion --- Coherence theory --- Coherence theory. --- Coherence theory of truth --- COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General --- PHILOSOPHY/Philosophy of Mind/General --- Biology --- Philosophy.
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Deflationist accounts of truth are widely held in contemporary philosophy; they seek to show that truth is a dispensable concept with no metaphysical depth. However, logical paradoxes present problems for deflationists. Here, contributors explore the extent to which, if at all, deflationism can accommodate paradox.
Truth --- Paradox --- Philosophy --- Philosophy & Religion --- Speculative Philosophy --- Figures of speech --- Logic --- Contradiction --- Deflationary theory of truth --- Deflationism --- Deflationary theory --- Paradox. --- Deflationary theory.
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