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Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 2000

Series: Episteme

ISBN (Hardback): 9789401057790

Full citation:

Paul Weingartner, Basic questions on truth, Berlin, Springer, 2000

Basic questions on truth

Paul Weingartner

Contents

Is it appropriate to ask "what is truth?"

1-6

Is it appropriate to ask for the meaning or for the definition of the expression "truth", "the true" or "true"?

7-16

Is the expression "true" superfluous and/or not a predicate?

17-28

Can the rules of a deductive system be called true or false?

29-44

Are definitions true or false?

45-79

Judgements, propositions, sentences

80-107

Is a sentence true iff it corresponds to reality?

108-153

Are there negative facts or properties?

154-173

Can a false theory be nearer to the truth than another false theory?

174-194

Ens et verum convertuntur?

195-206