This book tells the story of the birth of truth-conditional semantics from an earlier conception
of meaning. If we think of language as standing between mind and world, there are two …

Most paradoxes of self-reference have a dual or 'hypodox'. The Liar paradox (Lr='Lr is false')
has the Truth-Teller (Tt='Tt is true'). Russell's paradox, which involves the set of sets that are …

The view that the subject matter of epistemology is the concept of knowledge is faced with
the problem that all attempts so far to define that concept are subject to counterexamples. As …

From antiquity several philosophers have claimed that the goal of natural science is truth. In
particular, this is a basic tenet of contemporary scientific realism. However, all concepts of …

Dieses Buch lässt sich in drei Teile gliedern, in denen unterschiedliche allgemeine Ziele
verfolgt werden. Der erste Teil dieser Arbeit fällt mit dem ersten Kapitel zusammen. In …

The larger part of the more recent philosophical discussion on truth has focused on the
conict between'deationist'and substantial views of truth. However, it is not always altogether …

In the early 20th century, scepticism was common among philosophers about the very
meaningfulness of the notion of truth–and of the related notions of denotation, definition …

Tarski's pioneering work on truth has been thought by some to motivate a robust,
correspondence-style theory of truth, and by others to motivate a deflationary attitude toward …

Philosopher's judgments on the philosophical value of Tarski's contributions to the theory of
truth have varied. For example Karl Popper, Rudolf Carnap, and Donald Davidson have, in …

Ttler='Ttler is true'says of itself that it is true. It is a truth-teller. I argue that we have equally
telling arguments (i) to the effect that all truth-tellers must have the same truth-value (ii) and …