On Artifacts and Truth-Preservation

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  • Shawn Standefer Auburn University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26686/ajl.v12i3.2045

Abstract

In Saving Truth from Paradox, Hartry Field presents and defends a theory of truth with a new conditional. In this paper, I present two criticisms of this theory, one concerning its assessments of validity and one concerning its treatment of truth-preservation claims. One way of adjusting the theory adequately responds to the truth-preservation criticism, at the cost of making the validity criticism worse. I show that in a restricted setting, Field has a way to respond to the validity criticism. I close with some general considerations on the use of revision-theoretic methods in theories of truth.

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Author Biography

Shawn Standefer, Auburn University

Instructor

Department of Philosophy

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Published

2015-05-05