Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Jacques Derrida, Jean Baudrillard and David Lewis

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3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 5. Truth Bearers

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To be true a sentence must express a proposition, and not be ambiguous or vague or just expressive [Lewis]

3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 6. Verisimilitude

9651	Verisimilitude might be explained as being close to the possible world where the truth is exact [Lewis]

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Verisimilitude has proved hard to analyse, and seems to have several components [Lewis]

3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 9. Rejecting Truth

4756	Derrida says that all truth-talk is merely metaphor [Derrida, by Engel]

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True thoughts are inaccessible, in the subconscious, prior to speech or writing [Derrida]