Mark Jago offers a new metaphysical account of truth. He argues that to be true is to be made true by the existence of a suitable worldly entity. Truth arises as a relation between a proposition - the content of our sayings, thoughts, beliefs, and so on - and an entity (or entities) in the world.
Mark Jago offers a new metaphysical account of truth. He argues that to be true is to be made true by the existence of a suitable worldly entity. Truth arises as a relation between a proposition - the content of our sayings, thoughts, beliefs, and so on - and an entity (or entities) in the world.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Introduction
- Truth and Making True
- 1: Truth: Substantial or Insubstantial?
- 2: Arguments for Truthmaking
- 3: Truthmaker Maximalism
- Truthmakers
- 4: States of Affairs
- 5: Everything and Nothing
- The Truthmaking Relation
- 6: Truthmaking and Grounding
- 7: The Logic of Truthmaking
- Propositions and Paradoxes
- 8: The Nature of Propositions
- 9: Dealing with Liars
- Appendix: Proof Theory
