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A Smithian Perspective On Aristotle's Virtuous Friend, Meagan Fraser
A Smithian Perspective On Aristotle's Virtuous Friend, Meagan Fraser
Honors Program Theses and Projects
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Truths, Facts, And Liars, Peter Marton
Truths, Facts, And Liars, Peter Marton
Philosophy Faculty Publications
A Moderate Anti-realist (MAR) approach to truth and meaning, built around the concept of knowability, will be introduced and argued for in this essay. Our starting point will be the two fundamental anti-realists principles that claim that neither truth nor meaning can outstrip knowability and our focus will be on the challenge of adequately formalizing these principles and incorporating them into a formal theory. Accordingly, the author will introduce a MAR truth operator that is built on a distinction between being true and being factual. He will show then that this approach partitions propositions into eight classes, on the basis …