SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online

 
vol.16 issue27The constitution of judgments in Husserl's phenomenology author indexsubject indexarticles search
Home Pagealphabetic serial listing  

Services on Demand

Journal

Article

Indicators

Related links

  • On index processCited by Google
  • Have no similar articlesSimilars in SciELO
  • On index processSimilars in Google

Share


Discusiones Filosóficas

Print version ISSN 0124-6127

Abstract

KAGAYUTAN BOONGALING, John Ian. Ways of approaching truth: tracing the source of inflationary theories of truth's predicament. discus.filos [online]. 2015, vol.16, n.27, pp.15-29. ISSN 0124-6127.  https://doi.org/10.17151/difil.2015.16.27.2.

Inflationary theories of truth are prone to the scope problem. This is the problem of identifying a single explanation that could cover the various statements that most of us are willing to accept as true. This problem can also be expressed in another way: Inflationary theories of truth find it difficult to identify a single property that all true statements share for them to belong to the class of true statements. In line with this, the paper seeks to trace the source of this predicament. It will be shown that the root of the problem extends back to the early beginnings of Western philosophy itself. In the process, I will offer a distinction that can help explain why inflationary theories of truth are prone to the scope problem. Put in quite general terms, it is argued that the very approach (or methodology) that these theories employ makes them prone to the scope problem.

Keywords : essentialism as an approach (or methodology); inflationary theories of truth; problem of truth; scope problem; Western philosophy.

        · abstract in Spanish     · text in English     · English ( pdf )

 

Creative Commons License All the contents of this journal, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License