E-book
Truth in context : an essay on pluralism and objectivity
Record details
- ISBN: 026262155X
- ISBN: 9780262621557
- ISBN: 9780585078649
- ISBN: 0585078645
- ISBN: 0262278715
- ISBN: 9780262278713
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (x, 184 pages)
remote - Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1998.
- Copyright: ©1998
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "A Bradford book." |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-175) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | The Faces of Pluralism -- The Problem -- Faces of Absolutism -- The Move to Pluralism -- Metaphysical Pluralism -- Facts and Content -- Three Objections -- Understanding Conceptual Schemes -- Three Models -- The Kantian Model -- The Quinean Model -- The Wittgensteinian Model -- The Very Idea -- Extending Our Worldview -- Concepts: Two Pictures -- Conceptual Fluidity and Family Resemblance -- Conceptual Fluidity and Minimal Concepts -- Concepts and Change -- The Nature of Existence -- Dilemmas Confronted -- Objects and Existence -- Dilemmas Resolved -- The Idealism Objection -- The Currents of Truth -- What Is Realism about Truth? -- Antirealism about Truth: Epistemic Theories -- Antirealism about Truth: Deflationary Theories -- The Correspondence Theory and Pluralism -- Minimal Realism about Truth -- Relative Truth -- The True and the Real -- Relativism, Inconsistency, and Self-Reference -- On Stepping Outside of My Own Skin -- Evaluating Schemes -- Facing the Noumena -- The Purpose of Metaphysics. |
| Restrictions on Access Note: | NLC staff and students only. |
| Language Note: | English. |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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| Subject: | Truth Pluralism Objectivity |
| Genre: | Electronic books. Electronic books. |
