Inconsistency and replacement

Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 62 (4):387-402 (2019)
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The article is an extended critical discussion of Kevin Scharp’s Replacing Truth. Scharp’s case for the claim that the concept of truth is inconsistent is criticized, and so is his case for the claim that the concept of truth must be replaced because of its inconsistency.

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10.1080/0020174x.2017.1287918

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Replacing Truth.Kevin Scharp - 2013 - Oxford, England: Oxford University Press UK.
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Replacing truth.Kevin Scharp - 2007 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 50 (6):606 – 621.

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