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Truth's Fabric

Hinzen, W.

Authors

W. Hinzen



Abstract

To understand language, philosophers have related sentences and/or their uses to the concept of truth. I study an aspect of this relation by studying the actual structures that sentences expressing truth judgements have, an issue that I consider empirical. So I propose to switch from studying 'truth conditions' for sentences (determined metaphysically, or normatively) to studying the structures of expressions of the form This sentence is true/has (some) truth to it. I argue that the status of the 'truth predicate' must be understood in terms of the syntax (in Chomsky's naturalistic sense of syntax) of possessive constructions, rather than in terms of metaphysical, epistemic, or action–theoretic factors.

Citation

Hinzen, W. (2003). Truth's Fabric. Mind and Language, 18(2), 194-219. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0017.00221

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date 2003-04
Deposit Date Mar 26, 2008
Journal Mind and Language
Print ISSN 0268-1064
Electronic ISSN 1468-0017
Publisher Wiley
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 18
Issue 2
Pages 194-219
DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0017.00221