Modern Anti-Realism and Manufactured Truth

Auteur

Gerald Vision

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First published in 1988, Modern Anti-Realism and Manufactured Truth examines the forms of anti-realism which have sprouted in analytic philosophy and addresses more directly the grander culture of anti-realism. No attempt is made in these pages to demonstrate the existence of a mind independent world

Résumé
First published in 1988, Modern Anti-Realism and Manufactured Truth examines the forms of anti-realism which have sprouted in analytic philosophy and addresses more directly the grander culture of anti-realism. No attempt is made in these pages to demonstrate the existence of a mind independent world

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Preface Abbreviations Part I 1. Introduction- the Topic Explained 2. Theories Of Truth: Some Preliminaries 3. Some Familiar Objects to Correspondence- and One Not So Familiar 4. Coherence, Pragmatism and Redundancy 5. Correspondence Part II 6. Truth Epistemologized 7. Meaning, Truth and The Human Condition 8. Language- Games and Anti- Realism 9. Scientific Anti- Realism: The Kuhnian Challenge 10. Summing Up Notes Bibliography of Work Cited Index