- The Oxford Handbook of Truth
- Acknowledgments
- List of contributors
- Introduction
- Plato and Aristotle on Truth and Falsehood
- Truth in the Middle Ages
- Early Modern Theories of Truth
- Idealism and the Question of Truth
- Truth in British Idealism and its Analytic Critics
- Judgments, Facts, and Propositions: Theories of Truth in Russell, Wittgenstein, and Ramsey
- Truth in Frege
- The Coherence Theory of Truth
- The Correspondence Theory of Truth
- The Identity Theory of Truth
- The Pragmatist Theory of Truth
- Propositions and Truth-Bearers
- Truthmakers
- A Logical Theory of Truth-Makers and Falsity-Makers
- Bivalence and Determinacy
- Truth, Objectivity, and Realism
- Deflationist Truth
- Truth in Fictionalism
- Relative Truth
- Truth Pluralism
- The Moral Truth
- Truth and the Sciences
- Truth and Truthlikeness
- Truth in Mathematics
- Semantic Paradoxes: A Psychohistory of Self-Defeat
- Tarski on the Concept of Truth
- The Axiomatic Approach to Truth
- Non-Classical Theories of Truth
- Contextual Theories of Truth and Paradox
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
What does realism about an arbitrary subject-matter have to do with truth? Some views say everything, others hardly anything. Both answers are reflected in ongoing debates between self-styled realists and anti-realists in metaphysics, and other areas. Error theory, nonfactualism, fictionalism, and other forms of opposition to realism are normally articulated and differentiated using the notions of truth and falsity. Given its preoccupation with the limits of literal representation, fictionalism can seem especially ensared in semantics and/or the theory of mental content. Be that as it may, the present chapter aims to establish that there remains an important sense in which the fictionalist gambit does not essentially have anything to do with truth or falsity. In particular, many recognizably fictionalist positions are compatible with nominalism about truths: the view that nothing whatsoever is true.
Keywords: truth, realism, anti-realism, fiction, fictionalism, nominalism
Alexis Burgess, independent scholar
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- The Oxford Handbook of Truth
- Acknowledgments
- List of contributors
- Introduction
- Plato and Aristotle on Truth and Falsehood
- Truth in the Middle Ages
- Early Modern Theories of Truth
- Idealism and the Question of Truth
- Truth in British Idealism and its Analytic Critics
- Judgments, Facts, and Propositions: Theories of Truth in Russell, Wittgenstein, and Ramsey
- Truth in Frege
- The Coherence Theory of Truth
- The Correspondence Theory of Truth
- The Identity Theory of Truth
- The Pragmatist Theory of Truth
- Propositions and Truth-Bearers
- Truthmakers
- A Logical Theory of Truth-Makers and Falsity-Makers
- Bivalence and Determinacy
- Truth, Objectivity, and Realism
- Deflationist Truth
- Truth in Fictionalism
- Relative Truth
- Truth Pluralism
- The Moral Truth
- Truth and the Sciences
- Truth and Truthlikeness
- Truth in Mathematics
- Semantic Paradoxes: A Psychohistory of Self-Defeat
- Tarski on the Concept of Truth
- The Axiomatic Approach to Truth
- Non-Classical Theories of Truth
- Contextual Theories of Truth and Paradox
- Index