Truth and Truthmakers
Truth and Truthmakers
With many adherents among contemporary philosophers, truthmaking theory is the most recent development of a realist theory of truth. D.M. Armstrong offers the first full-length study of this theory and makes a compelling case for truthmaking's importance in philosophy. His book marks a significant contribution to the debate and will be of interest to a wide range of readers working in analytical philosophy.
- Major statement by a leading metaphysician
- Truth is an important topic in analytical philosophy
- Written in a clear and largely non-technical style, so accessible to students
Product details
June 2004Paperback
9780521547239
172 pages
215 × 138 × 13 mm
0.25kg
2 b/w illus. 1 table
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Table of Contents
- 1. An introduction to truthmakers
- 2. The general theory of truthmaking
- 3. Epistemology and methodology
- 4. Properties, relations and states of affairs
- 5. Negative truths
- 6. General truths
- 7. Truthmakers for modal truths: Part 1, possibility
- 8. Truthmakers for modal truths: Part 2, necessity
- 9. Numbers and classes
- 10. Causes, laws and dispositions
- 11. Time.
