Defending the Correspondence Theory of Truth by Joshua Rasmussen

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By Joshua Rasmussen

protecting the Correspondence conception of fact is an actual and leading edge account of ways the reality of a proposition depends on that proposition's connection to a section of truth. Joshua Rasmussen refines and defends the correspondence thought of fact, presenting new money owed of evidence, propositions, and the correspondence among them. With those theories in hand, he then deals unique suggestions to the hardest objections dealing with correspondence theorists. Addressing the matter of humorous evidence, liar paradoxes, and conventional epistemological questions touching on how our minds can entry fact, he demanding situations fresh objections and defends what has often been the preferred idea of fact. Written with readability, precision, and sensitivity to various philosophical backgrounds, this ebook will attract complicated scholars and students looking a deeper knowing of the connection among fact and reality.

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