Wittgenstein's Account of Truth

Sara Ellenbogen

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Wittgenstein's Account of Truth challenges the view that semantic antirealists attribute to Wittgenstein: that we cannot meaningfully call verification-transcendent statements "true." Ellenbogen argues that Wittgenstein would not have held that we should revise our practice of treating certain statements as true or false, but instead would have held that we should revise our view of what it means to call a statement true. According to the dictum "meaning is use," what makes it correct to call a statement "true" is not its correspondence with how things are, but our criterion for determining its truth. What it means for us to call a statement "true" is that we currently judge it true, knowing that we may some day revise the criteria whereby we do so.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

PART I. FROM "MEANING IS USE" TO THE REJECTION OF TRANSCENDENT TRUTH

1. Wittgenstein's Rejection of Realism versus Semantic Antirealism

2. The Positive Account of Truth

3. Antirealism Revisited

PART II. FROM "MEANING IS USE" TO SEMANTIC ANTIREALISM

4. The Acquisition Argument and the Manifestation Criterion

5. Antirealism Presupposes Realism

6. Tensions Between Wittgenstein and Dummett

7. Semantic Antirealism Is Inconsistent

PART III. WHY A REVISIONIST ACCOUNT OF TRUTH?

8. Criteria and Justification Conditions

9. Criteria and Realist Truth Conditions

10. Why Criteria Are Not Defeasible

11. Criterial Change, Conceptual Change, and Their Implications for the Concept of Truth

12. Why a Revisionist Account of Truth?

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Sujets

• Philosophie
• Épistémologie
• Epistémologie
• Epistémologie
• Epistémologie

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 01 février 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780791487365
• Langue: English

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Wittgenstein’s Account of Truth

SUNY series in Philosophy

George R. Lucas Jr., editor

Wittgenstein’s Account of Truth

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Sara Ellenbogen

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Ellenbogen, Sara. Wittgenstein’s account of truth / Sara Ellenbogen. p. cm. — (SUNY series in philosophy) Includes bibliographical references (p.) and index. ISBN 0-7914-5625-0 (alk. paper) — ISBN 0-7914-5626-9 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889–1951. 2. Truth. I. Title. II. Series.

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For Ann and Lenny Feinzig

“Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgment.” —On Certainty#378

Abbreviations Preface Acknowledgments

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Contents

PART I FROM “MEANING IS USE” TO THE REJECTION OF TRANSCENDENT TRUTH 1. Wittgenstein’s Rejection of Realism versus Semantic Antirealism 2. The Positive Account of Truth 3. Antirealism Revisited

PART II FROM “MEANING IS USE” TO SEMANTIC ANTIREALISM 4. The Acquisition Argument and the Manifestation Criterion 5. Antirealism Presupposes Realism 6. Tensions Between Wittgenstein and Dummett 7. Semantic Antirealism Is Inconsistent

PART III WHY A REVISIONIST ACCOUNT OF TRUTH? 8. Criteria and Justification Conditions 9. Criteria and Realist Truth Conditions

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10. Why Criteria Are Not Defeasible 11. Criterial Change, Conceptual Change, and Their Implications for the Concept of Truth 12. Why a Revisionist Account of Truth?

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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The Blue and Brown Books

Philosophical Investigations

Philosophical Remarks

On Certainty

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