Resnik, Michael D. University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Print publication date: 1999 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online:
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-825014-2
doi:10.1093/0198250142.003.0002
 

Michael D. Resnik
Talk of truth plays a major role in formulating realism, to the point that realist theories are often criticized by attacking the correspondence theory of truth that they are presumed to defend. In this chapter, I claim that there is an alternative theory of truth, which is both non-epistemic and not based on correspondence relation that suffices to support mathematical realism. I describe the theory as a logical conception of truth because the truth predicate will turn out to be simply a logical operator. The theory has two main features: it is disquotational, and immanent, in that it specifies the extension of the term ‘true’ only for the language in which it applies.
Keywords: correspondence theory of truth, disquotational, epistemic, immanent, logical operator, mathematical realism, transcendent, truth
doi:10.1093/0198250142.003.0002
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Part One Problems and Positions
Part Two Neutral Epistemology
Part Three Mathematics as a Science of Patterns