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THE ADVERBIAL THEORY OF TRUTH

From: 2016-09-08 To:2016-09-08

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    • THE ADVERBIAL THEORY OF TRUTH

    Pascal ENGEL
    (EHESS – Paris)

    8 September 2016 | 17h30
    Sala do Departamento de Filosofia (Torre B - Piso 1)
    Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto
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    According to the adverbial concepon of truth “the words ‘fact’ and ‘true’ in their primary use are inseparable parts of the adverbial phrases… ‘it is a fact that’ and ‘it is true that’ ” (Prior 1969, CJF Williams 1976). "True" is on, this view an operator on sentences, not a predicate, and the paradigmac truth ascripons are of the form "truly P" rather than "it is true that p". I trace some of the origins of this view in contemporary philosophy, including its affinies with the prosentenal, deflaonal and identy theories of truth, evaluate it, and defend a modest version of it.

     

    Imagem: Willi Baumeister, Colored Ideogram (1939)

     

    Organização:
    Research Group Mind Language and Action Group (MLAG)
    Medieval & Early Modern Philosophy
    Instituto de Filosofia da Universidade do Porto - FIL/00502

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