Princeton Legacy Library
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Princeton Legacy Library

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Princeton Legacy Library

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In a number of influential articles published since 1972, Dorothy Grover has developed the prosentential theory of truth. Brought together and published with a new introduction, these essays are even more impressive as a group than they were as single contributions to philosophy and linguistics. Denying that truth has an explanatory role, the prosentential theory does not address traditional truth issues like belief, meaning, and justification. Instead, it focuses on the grammatical role of the truth predicate and asserts that "it is true" is a prosentence, functioning much as a pronoun does. Grover defends the theory by indicating how it can handle notorious paradoxes like the Liar, as well as by analyzing some English truth-usages. The introduction to the volume surveys traditional theories of truth, including correspondence, pragmatic, and coherence theories. It discusses the essays to come and, finally, considers the implications of the prosentential theory for other theories. Despite the fact that the prosentential theory dismisses the "nature of truth" as a red herring, Grover shows that there are important aspects of traditional truth theories that prosentential theorists have the option of endorsing.Originally published in 1992.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2014
ISBN
9781400862689
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Epistemology in Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. 1 Introductory Essay
  5. 2 Propositional Quantifiers
  6. 3 A Prosentential Theory of Truth
  7. 4 Inheritors and Paradox
  8. 5 Prosentences and Propositional Quantification: A Response to Zimmerman
  9. 6 Truth
  10. 7 Truth: Do We Need It?
  11. 8 Berry's Paradox
  12. 9 On Two Deflationary Truth Theories
  13. 10 Propositional Quantification and Quotation Contexts
  14. 11 Quantifying in and out of Quotes
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index