An Identity Theory of Truth

by JulianDodd (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2000

  $188.40

  This book argues that correspondence theories of truth fail because the relation which holds between a true thought and a fact is that of identity, not correspondence.

• New

  Paperback
  2008

  $104.26

  Dodd explains that correspondence theories of truth fail because the relation between true thought and fact is identity, not correspondence. Facts are not complexes of worldly entities which make thoughts true; they are merely true thoughts. The resulting modest identity theory allows for a defensible deflation of the concept of truth.