The Modest, or Quantificational, Account of Truth

The Modest, or Quantificational, Account of Truth

Truth is a stable, epistemically unconstrained property of propositions, and the concept of truth admits of a non-reductive explanation: that, in a nutshell, is the view for which I argued in Conceptions of Truth. In this paper I try to explain that explanation in a more detailed and, hopefully, mor...

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Main Author: Wolfgang Künne
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: University of Tartu 2008-12-01
Series:Studia Philosophica Estonica
Subjects:
truth
non-nominal quantification
Online Access:http://www.spe.ut.ee/ojs/index.php/spe/article/download/31/16
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spelling doaj-b4700d3fdaa549fcb1f4a25a47f2f2892020-11-24T21:13:39ZdeuUniversity of TartuStudia Philosophica Estonica1406-00001736-58992008-12-011.2122168The Modest, or Quantificational, Account of TruthWolfgang KünneTruth is a stable, epistemically unconstrained property of propositions, and the concept of truth admits of a non-reductive explanation: that, in a nutshell, is the view for which I argued in Conceptions of Truth. In this paper I try to explain that explanation in a more detailed and, hopefully, more perspicuous way than I did in Ch. 6.2 of the book and to defend its use of sentential quantification against some of the criticisms it has has come in for.http://www.spe.ut.ee/ojs/index.php/spe/article/download/31/16truthnon-nominal quantification
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description Truth is a stable, epistemically unconstrained property of propositions, and the concept of truth admits of a non-reductive explanation: that, in a nutshell, is the view for which I argued in Conceptions of Truth. In this paper I try to explain that explanation in a more detailed and, hopefully, more perspicuous way than I did in Ch. 6.2 of the book and to defend its use of sentential quantification against some of the criticisms it has has come in for.
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non-nominal quantification
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