TY - BOOK ID - 77929609 TI - Truth : its nature, criteria and conditions PY - 2011 SN - 3110325764 9783110325768 PB - Frankfurt : Ontos Verlag, DB - UniCat KW - Truth. KW - Truth KW - Correspondence theory of truth KW - Truth, Correspondence theory of KW - Conviction KW - Belief and doubt KW - Philosophy KW - Skepticism KW - Certainty KW - Necessity (Philosophy) KW - Pragmatism KW - Correspondence theory. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77929609 AB - Truth: Its criteria and conditions is an in-depth critical-and-constructive inquiry in almost equal measure. The theories of the nature of empirical truth critically considered include two forms of the traditional correspondence theory; truth as appraisal; truth as identity of proposition and truth; en emotive theory of truth; P.F. Strawson's performative theory, and N. Rescher's novel theory of a coherentist criterion of truth. The constructive parts include an analysis of the concept of "a fact," the meaning and uses of 'true' and 'false' in empirical statements, together with the various so ER -