This work reconfigures metaphysics in radical ways that allow the accommodation of our ordinary ways of speaking of what does not exist while retaining the absolutely crucial presupposition that such objects exist in no way at all, have no properties, and are not the truth-makers for the truths and
Truth Without Objectivity
β Scribed by Max KΓΆlbel
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 167
- Series
- International Library of Philosophy
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
Truth without Objectivity provides a critique of the mainstream view of 'meaning'. KΓΆlbel examines the standard solutions to the conflict implicit in this view, demonstrating their inadequacy and developing instead his own relativist theory of truth.
The mainstream view of meaning assumes that understanding a sentence's meaning implies knowledge of the conditions required for it to be true. This view is challenged by taste judgements, which have meaning, but seem to be neither true nor false.
β¦ Subjects
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