Disquotational Conception of Truth and the Generalization Problem

• Authors: Cezary Cieśliński

Title variants

PL

Dyskwotacyjna koncepcja prawdy i problem generalizacji

EN

Disquotational Conception of Truth and the Generalization Problem

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

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.

• Publisher: University of Warsaw, Institute of Philosophy
• Journal: Filozofia Nauki
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 16
• Issue: 3-4
• Pages: 19-37

Dates

published

2008-09-01

Contributors

author

Cezary Cieśliński