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Dyskwotacyjna koncepcja prawdy i problem generalizacji
Disquotational conception of truth and the generalization problem

Author(s): Cezary Cieśliński
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Uniwersytet Warszawski - Wydział Filozofii i Socjologii, Instytut Filozofii
Keywords: truth; disquotationalism; T-sentences

Summary/Abstract: The paper contains a discussion of a basic difficulty encountered by adherents of the disquotational conception of truth. The problem is that the disquotational theory seems to weak to prove many important truth-theoretical generalizations, like e.g. „All substitutions of the law of excluded middle are true”. Various ways of saving the disquotationalist from this objection are analyzed and deemed unsatisfactory.

  • Issue Year: 16/2008
  • Issue No: 3-4(63-64)
  • Page Range: 19-37
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Polish