Combining Philosophers
Ideas for H.Putnam/P.Oppenheim, Gottlob Frege and Ian Rumfitt
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3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 1. Truth
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The idea that there are unrecognised truths is basic to our concept of truth [Rumfitt]
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3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 2. Defining Truth
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The word 'true' seems to be unique and indefinable [Frege]
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3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 5. Truth Bearers
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Frege was strongly in favour of taking truth to attach to propositions [Frege, by Dummett]
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3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 6. Verisimilitude
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Truth does not admit of more and less [Frege]
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3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 5. What Makes Truths / c. States of affairs make truths
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We need to grasp not number-objects, but the states of affairs which make number statements true [Frege, by Wright,C]
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3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 7. Making Modal Truths
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'True at a possibility' means necessarily true if what is said had obtained [Rumfitt]
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3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 3. Correspondence Truth critique
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There cannot be complete correspondence, because ideas and reality are quite different [Frege]
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3. Truth / H. Deflationary Truth / 1. Redundant Truth
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The property of truth in 'It is true that I smell violets' adds nothing to 'I smell violets' [Frege]
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