Truth and Ontology

Name: Truth and Ontology
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ISBN: 9780199205233

ISBN-10: 019920523X

ISBN-13: 9780199205233

Edition: 2007

Authors: Trenton Merricks

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That there are no white ravens is true because there are no white ravens. And so there is a sense in which that truth 'depends on the world'. But this sort of dependence is trivial. After all, it does not imply that there is anything that is that truth's 'truthmaker'. Nor does it imply that something exists to which that truth corresponds. Nor does it imply that there are properties whose exemplification grounds that truth. Trenton Merricks explores whether and how truth depends substantively on the world or on things or on being. And he takes a careful look at philosophical debates concerning, among other things, modality, time, and dispositions. He looks at these debates because any…

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List price: $105.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/14/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 220
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.27" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English




Truthmaker and iMaking True/i



Truthmakers



Negative Existentials



Truth Supervenes on Being



Modality



Presentism



Subjunctive Conditionals



Theory of Truth