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Theories of truth

Frederick F. Schmitt

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Acknowledgements. Truth: An Introduction: Frederick F. Schmitt. Part I: Pragmatist Theories of Truth: 1. How To Make Our Ideas Clear: Charles Sanders Peirce. 2. Pragmatism's Conception of Truth: William James. Part II: Coherence Theories of Truth: 3. On the Nature of Truth: Bertrand Russell. 4. In Defense of the Coherence Theory of Truth: Francis Dauer. Part III: Correspondence Theories of Truth: 5. The Semantic Conception of Truth and the Foundations of Semantics: Alfred Tarski. 6. Tarski's Theory of Truth: Hartry Field. 7. Truth and Language-World Connections: Dorothy Grover. 8. The Explanatory Role of Correspondence Truth: Philip Kitcher. Part IV: Deflationary Theories of Truth: 9. A Prosentential Theory of Truth: Dorothy L. Grover, Joseph L. Camp, Jr. and Nuel D. Belnap, Jr. 10. Deflationist Views of Meaning and Content: Hartry Field. 11. Minimalism: Anil Gupta. Truth: A Bibliography: Kevin Kimble and Frederick F. Schmitt. Index.

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Key concepts: Coherence theory of truth, Semantic theory of truth, Pragmatic theory of truth, Alethiology, Philosophy, Pragmatism, Epistemology, Logical truth