Linguistique de l’écrit

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Unity through truth

Bryan Pickel

pp. 1425-1452

Résumé

Renewed worries about the unity of the proposition have been taken as a crucial stumbling block for any traditional conception of propositions. These worries are often framed in terms of how entities independent of mind and language can have truth conditions: why is the proposition that Desdemona loves Cassio true if and only if she loves him? I argue that the best understanding of these worries shows that they should be solved by our theory of truth and not our theory of content. Specifically, I propose a version of the redundancy theory according to which ‘it is true that Desdemona loves Cassio’ expresses the same proposition as ‘Desdemona loves Cassio’. Surprisingly, this variant of the redundancy theory treats ‘is true’ as an ordinary predicate of the language, thereby defusing many standard criticisms of the redundancy theory.

Détails de la publication

Publié dans:

(2019) Synthese 196 (4).

Pages: 1425-1452

DOI: 10.1007/s11229-016-1279-6

Citation complète:

Pickel Bryan, 2019, Unity through truth. Synthese 196 (4), 1425-1452. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-016-1279-6.