Truth in Metaphysics Ε‎ 4

In Brad Inwood (ed.), Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Volume 48: Summer 2015. Oxford University Press UK (2015)
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Two chapters of Aristotle’s Metaphysics, E 4 and Θ‎ 10, discuss truth and a use of the verb ‘to be’ associated with it. The relationship between these two chapters is problematic because despite an apparent cross-reference connecting them, they seem to put forward incompatible views. This chapter argues that E 4 fully agrees with Θ 10. One of the assumptions on which the reconciliation relies is that when ‘to be’ is employed in accordance with the use associated with truth, it applies to external things but neither to thoughts nor to sentences. This sheds a novel light on E 4, which turns out to make claims rather different from those which commentators have taken it to defend. In particular, E 4 commits Aristotle to the view that states of affairs are mind-dependent entities.

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