Crispin Wright offers an original perspective on the place of "realism" in philosophical inquiry. He proposes a radically new framework for discussing the claims of the realists and the anti-realists. This framework rejects the classical "deflationary" conception of truth yet allows both disputants
Truth and Objectivity
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Year
- 1992
- Category
- Fiction
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