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E-Book, Englisch, Band 194, 302 Seiten
Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6268-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
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Preface
1 Introductory Essay 3
1. On "the Nature of Truth" 4
2 The Prosentential Theory - Review and Reflections 15
3 Implications for Some Other Theories of Truth 27
4 Final Reflections 44
2 Propositional Quantifiers 46
A Preview 46
1 Introduction 47
2 A Language in Which Sentences Are the Substituends of Propositional Variables 48
3 A Language in Which Propositional Terms Are the Substituends of Propositional Term Variables 63
4 Summary 68
3 A Prosentential Theory of Truth 70
1 Ramsey 71
2 Prosentential Theory: Exposition 80
3 Prosentential Theory: Objections 97
4 Consequences and Applications 105
4 Inheritors and Paradox 121
1 Grounded Pronouns 124
2 Inheritors 125
3 Ungrounded Inheritors 126
4 Grounded Prosentences 127
5 Sentential Inheritors 127
6 Ungrounded Inheritors 128
7 Paradoxes 129
8 Generalized Versions of the Liar 129
9 Grounded/Ungrounded 131
10 A Cause of "Paradox" 132
11 A Strengthened Version of the Liar 133
12 Semantic and Logical Paradoxes 136
5 Prosentences and Propositional Quantification: A Response to Zimmerman 137
1 Prosentences 138
2 Propositional Quantification 140
3 Irredundant Uses of 'True' 143
6 Truth 146
1 Two Sources of Scepticism 152
2 Extensions for 'True' and 'False' 155
3 Would a Property-Ascribing 'True' Be Useful? 156
4 Review 164
5 Propositional Quantification in English 167
7 Truth: Do We Need It? 173
1 Problems of Expressibility 174
2 Is Truth a Property? 175
3 The Prosentential Theory 178
4 A Bit of Characterizing 181
5 Meaning and Truth 185
6 Logic and Truth 189
7 On 'Neither True nor False' 193
8 Properties Reconsidered 204
8 Berry's Paradox 207
1 Inheritors 208
2 Berry's Paradox 211
3 Variations on Berry 213
9 On Two Deflationary Truth Theories 215
A Preview 216
1 The Disquotational Theory 216
2 The Prosentential Theory 218
3 Generalization - A Comparison 222
4 Metalinguistic Uses of the Truth Predicate 225
5 Disquotation with Prosentences 230
6 Summary 233
10 Propositional Quantification and Quotation Contexts 234
1 Introduction 234
2 Grammar 235
3 Hierarchies 236
4 Semantics 238
5 Discussion 242
11 Quantifying in and out of Quotes 244
1 Logic as an Organon 244
2 0[subscript 2] and M[subscript 2] Completely Separate 249
3 0[subscript 3] a Proper Part of M[subscript 3] 260
4 0[subscript]4 and M[subscript 4] Overlap 275
Bibliography 277
Index 285
