Analysis 79 (1):34-43 (2019)
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Monists say that the nature of truth is invariant, whichever sentence you consider; pluralists say that the nature of truth varies between different sets of sentences. The orthodoxy is that logic and logical form favour monism: there must be a single property that is preserved in any valid inference; and any truth-functional complex must be true in the same way as its components. The orthodoxy, I argue, is mistaken. Logic and logical form impose only structural constraints on a metaphysics of truth. Monistic theories are not guaranteed to satisfy these constraints, and there is a pluralistic theory that does so.
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Keywords | Truth pluralism Mixed Inferences Mixed Compounds Logic Necessary truth preservation Logical form Truth monism Correspondence theory of truth |
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DOI | 10.1093/analys/anx165 |
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