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Acknowledgements | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
1 | Universals, Predication, and Truth | 10 |
1.1 | The Problem of Universals | 10 |
1.2 | Theories of Universals | 15 |
1.3 | Predication, Participation, and Inherence | 20 |
1.4 | Universals, Truth, and Devitt | 26 |
2 | The Univocity of Truth | 33 |
2.1 | Horwich and Deflationary Theories of Truth | 33 |
2.2 | Alston and Minimalist Realism about Truth | 37 |
2.3 | The Problem of the Univocity of Truth | 42 |
2.4 | Reality and the Eleatic Principle | 47 |
3 | The Correspondence Theory for Predicative Sentences | 53 |
3.1 | Difficulties about States of Affairs in the Tractatus | 53 |
3.2 | Truth as Isomorphism between Sentence and State of Affairs | 58 |
3.3 | The Nominalist Account of Atomic Facts | 61 |
3.4 | The Realist Account of Atomic Facts | 66 |
3.5 | Correspondence for Sentences with and without Facts | 72 |
3.6 | The Notion of Content | 77 |
3.7 | Austin's Theory of Truth | 79 |
App. 3.1 | The Role of Mental Sentences in Tractarian Belief | 83 |
App. 3.2 | The Tractatus's Attitude to Truth | 86 |
4 | Russell's Theory of Truth and Its Principal Problems | 88 |
4.1 | The Virtues of Russell's Theory of Truth | 88 |
4.2 | The Variants of Russell's Theory of Truth | 90 |
4.3 | The Major Problems of Russell's Theory | 96 |
4.4 | The Problem of the Twofold Role of the Relation | 97 |
4.5 | The Modes of Composition of Entities | 102 |
5 | How Predicative Beliefs Correspond to the World | 108 |
5.1 | The Objections to Russell's Theory Analysed as Dilemmas | 108 |
5.2 | A Formal Hypothesis in Defence of Russell's Theory | 111 |
5.3 | Informal Justification of the Formal Hypothesis | 115 |
5.4 | Correspondence for Predicative Beliefs | 117 |
5.5 | Criterion of Identity for Russellian Propositions | 121 |
5.6 | Intentional Relations | 124 |
5.7 | Russellian Propositions as Constructions | 127 |
5.8 | The Identity Theory of Truth | 130 |
App. 5.1 | Answers to Other Objections to Russell's Theory | 132 |
6 | The Metaphysics of Facts | 140 |
6.1 | Metaphysical Accounts of the Nature of Facts | 140 |
6.2 | Armstrong and Facts as Truth Makers | 149 |
6.3 | The Linguistic View of Facts and States of Affairs | 154 |
6.4 | Olson's Account of Facts | 159 |
6.5 | The Slingshot and the Great Fact | 168 |
7 | The Metaphysics of Propositions | 172 |
7.1 | Current Theories of Propositions | 172 |
7.2 | Minimalism about Propositions | 176 |
7.3 | The Ontological Case for Platonism about Propositions | 182 |
7.4 | Bealer on Structureless Platonic Propositions | 185 |
7.5 | The Structure of Platonic Propositions | 190 |
7.6 | Immanent Russellian Propositions | 193 |
8 | The Correspondence Theory and Complex Propositions | 196 |
8.1 | Complex Propositions and Compound Propositions | 196 |
8.2 | Propositions as Subjects of Predication | 200 |
8.3 | Conjunction as a Function | 206 |
8.4 | Negation and Positive and Negative Entities | 207 |
8.5 | Negative Predicative Sentences, Their Truth Conditions and Truth Makers | 211 |
8.6 | The Concept of Negation and Negative Propositions | 213 |
8.7 | Universal Sentences | 216 |
8.8 | Negative Existentially Quantified Sentences | 220 |
8.9 | The Problem of Identity Sentences | 221 |
App. 8.1 | Logical Constants as Functions | 230 |
Bibliography | 236 | |
Index | 245 |
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