Description: Likeness to Truth, Paperback by Oddie, Graham, ISBN 9401085706, ISBN-13 9789401085700, Brand New, Free shipping in the US The concept of likeness to truth, like that of truth itself, is fundamental to a realist conception of inquiry. To demonstrate this we need only make two rather modest aim of an inquiry, as an inquiry, is realist assumptions: the truth doctrine (that the the truth of some matter) and the progress doctrine (that one false theory may realise this aim better than another). Together these yield the conclusion that a false theory may be more truthlike, or closer to the truth, than another. It is the aim of this book to give a rigorous philosophical analysis of the concept of likeness to truth, and to examine the consequences, some of them no doubt surprising to those who have been unduly impressed by the (admittedly important) true/false dichotomy. Truthlikeness is not only a requirement of a particular philosophical outlook, it is as deeply embedded in common sense as the concept of truth. Everyone seems to be capable of grading various propositions, in different (hypothetical) situations, according to their closeness to the truth in those situations. And (if my experience is anything to go by) there is remarkable unanimity on these pretheoretical judge ments. This is not proof that there is a single coherent concept underlying these judgements. The whole point of engaging in philosophical analysis is to make this claim plausible.
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Book Title: Likeness to Truth
Number of Pages: 236 Pages
Publication Name: Likeness to Truth
Language: English
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Subject: General, Logic
Publication Year: 2011
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 13.2 Oz
Item Length: 9.3 in
Subject Area: Mathematics, Philosophy
Author: G. Oddie
Series: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science Ser.
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
