A report on Truth
Property of being in accord with fact or reality.
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Pro-sentence
0 linksSentence where the subject pronoun has been dropped and therefore the sentence has a null subject.
Sentence where the subject pronoun has been dropped and therefore the sentence has a null subject.
The prosentential theory of truth developed by Dorothy Grover, Nuel Belnap, and Joseph Camp, and defended more recently by Robert Brandom, holds that sentences like "p" is true and It is true that p should not be understood as ascribing properties to the sentence "p", but as a pro-sentence whose content is the same as that of "p."
Michel Foucault
2 linksFrench philosopher, historian of ideas, writer, political activist, and literary critic.
French philosopher, historian of ideas, writer, political activist, and literary critic.
Foucault is sometimes criticized for his prominent formulation of principles of social constructionism, which some see as an affront to the concept of truth.
Brand Blanshard
1 linksAmerican philosopher known primarily for his defense of reason and rationalism.
American philosopher known primarily for his defense of reason and rationalism.
Thought, he held, is that activity of mind which aims at truth, and the ultimate object of thought is full understanding of the Absolute.
Hartry Field
0 linksAmerican philosopher.
American philosopher.
Field's first work was a commentary on Alfred Tarski's theory of truth, which he has worked on since 1972.
Richard Firth Green
0 linksCanadian scholar who specializes in Middle English literature.
Canadian scholar who specializes in Middle English literature.
In A Crisis of Truth, a "monumental, encyclopedic volume", Green analyzes the shift in the meaning of the word and concept of truth during the reign of Richard II of England; this transformation changes "an ethical truth in which truth is understood to reside in persons transforms...into a political truth in which truth is understood to reside in documents" or, in Pearsall's summary, from a subjective to an objective concept.
William Kneale
0 linksEnglish logician best known for his 1962 book The Development of Logic, a history of logic from its beginnings in Ancient Greece written with his wife Martha.
English logician best known for his 1962 book The Development of Logic, a history of logic from its beginnings in Ancient Greece written with his wife Martha.
He was also the author of a number of papers in philosophical logic, particularly on the nature of truth for natural languages, and the role that linguistic concepts play in the treatment of logical paradoxes.