Description
Book SynopsisThat there are no white ravens is true because there are no white ravens. And so there is a sense in which that truth ''depends on the world''. But this sort of dependence is trivial. After all, it does not imply that there is anything that is that truth''s ''truthmaker''. Nor does it imply that something exists to which that truth corresponds. Nor does it imply that there are properties whose exemplification grounds that truth. Trenton Merricks explores whether and how truth depends substantively on the world or on things or on being. And he takes a careful look at philosophical debates concerning, among other things, modality, time, and dispositions. He looks at these debates because any account of truth''s substantive dependence on being has implications for them. And these debates likewise have implications for how and whether truth depends on being. Along the way, Merricks makes a number of new points about each of these debates that are of independent interest, of interest apart
Trade ReviewReview from previous edition Excellent new book...This is an important contemporary debate, and Merricks' book is a very important move within it. * Philip Goff, Times Literary Supplement *
Table of Contents1. Truthmaker and Making True ; 2. Truthmakers ; 3. Negative Existentials ; 4. Truth Supervenes on Being ; 5. Modality ; 6. Presentism ; 7. Subjunctive Conditionals ; 8. Theory of Truth
