Truth: Its Nature, Criteria And Conditions (philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis)

__Truth: Its Nature, 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; an 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 sorts of conditions for their correct application; the appraisive/evaluative uses of true and false statements; the performative-__cum__-cognitive uses of "true" empirical statements; and the conditions of the performative uses of "true." A significant claim about the concept of truth is its indefinablity; albeit for quite different reasons from Gottlob Frege’s reason based on his argument against the correspondence theory of truth. Truth: Its Nature, 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; an 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 sorts of conditions for their correct application; the appraisive/evaluative uses of true and false statements; the performative- cum -cognitive uses of "true" empirical statements; and the conditions of the performative uses of "true." A significant claim about the concept of truth is its indefinablity; albeit for quite different reasons from Gottlob Frege’s reason based on his argument against the correspondence theory of truth. Annotation 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'sperformative theory, and N Reschers 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 sorts of conditions for their correct application; the appraisive/evaluative uses of true and false statements; and the performative-cum-cognitive uses of true'empirical statements; and the conditions of the performative uses of true.'A significant claim about the concept of truth is its indefinablity; albeit for quite different reasons from Gottlob Freges reason based on his argument against the correspondence theory of truth Cover 1 Title page 4 Copyright page 5 CONTENTS 6 PREFACE 8 Chapter 1. The Traditional Correspondence Theory of Truth 12 Chapter 2. A Modified Correspondence Theory of Truth 22 Chapter 3. “Truth as Identity of Fact and Proposition” 30 Chapter 4. “Truth as Appraisal” 50 Chapter 5. Facts 58 Chapter 6. “Emotive Theory of Truth” 66 Chapter 7. Nicholas Rescher’s Coherence Theory of Truth 78 Chapter 8. Standard Conditions, Preconditions and Presuppositions, and Performative & Constative Uses, of ‘True’ and ‘False’ 88 Chapter 9. Conditions of Cognitive & Conditions of Performative Uses of Truth Statements 102 Chapter 10. Appraisive/ Evaluative Uses of ‘True’ and ‘False’ 110 INDEX 124 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 127 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 This volume comprises original articles by leading authors - from philosophy as well as sociology - in the debate around relativism in the sociology of (scientific) knowledge. Its aim has been to bring together several threads from the relevant disciplines and to cover the discussion from historical and systematic points of view. Among the contributors are Maria Baghramian, Barry Barnes, Martin Endreß, Hubert Knoblauch, Richard Schantz and Harvey Siegel