A Path to a Conception of Symbolic Truth

by Malgorzata Czarnocka

Overview

This book deals with correspondence truth. It critically analyses selected known correspondence truth theories and proposes - as an alternative - the symbolic truth conception in which correspondence is a symbolisation and not copying.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783631661000
Publisher:	Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	10/23/2017
Series:	Towards a Universal Civilization , #3
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Małgorzata Czarnocka is Full Professor of Philosophy and editor-in-chief of two academic journals. She works at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Her research interests include: epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophical anthropology.

Table of Contents

Correspondence truth – Selected contemporary correspondence truth theories – Counter-proposal – The «symbolic» correspondence truth theory in which correspondence is a symbolisation, and not copying, of reality in a Cassirer-close sense