Hard truths /
Hard Truths is a groundbreaking new work in which noted philosopher Elijah Millgram advances a new approach to truth and its role in our day-to-day reasoning.:.; Takes up the hard truths of real reasoning and draws out their implications for logic and metaphysics.; Introduces and takes issue withpre...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2009.
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| Online Access: | View fulltext via EzAccess |
| Summary: | Hard Truths is a groundbreaking new work in which noted philosopher Elijah Millgram advances a new approach to truth and its role in our day-to-day reasoning.:.; Takes up the hard truths of real reasoning and draws out their implications for logic and metaphysics.; Introduces and takes issue withprevailing views of the purpose of truth and the way we reason, including deflationism about truth, possible worlds treatments of modality, and antipsychologism in philosophy of logic.; Develops philosophically ambitious ideas in a style accessible to non-specialists.; Will make us rethink the place o. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 301 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-295) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781444310764 1444310763 9781444310757 1444310755 1405188154 9781405188159 |