In this Book
- Wittgenstein's Account of Truth
- Book
- 2003
- Published by: State University of New York Press
- Series: SUNY Series in Philosophy (discontinued)
summary
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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Additional Information
ISBN
9780791487365
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
55676247
Pages
164
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No