The Taming of the True
The Taming of the True defends and develops global semantic anti-realism. Neil Tennant argues compellingly that every truth is knowable, and that manifestationism in the theory of meaning entails logical reform. He extends semantic anti-realism to empirical discourse, developing new accounts of the analytic/synthetic distinction, cognitive significance and constructive falsifiability. The book has important consequences for the philosophy of mathematics and logic, the theory of meaning,...
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The Taming of the True defends and develops global semantic anti-realism. Neil Tennant argues compellingly that every truth is knowable, and that manifestationism in the theory of meaning entails logical reform. He extends semantic anti-realism to empirical discourse, developing new accounts of the analytic/synthetic distinction, cognitive significance and constructive falsifiability. The book has important consequences for the philosophy of mathematics and logic, the theory of meaning, metaphysics, and epistemology.
1Introduction12The Realism Debate153Irrealism634Against Meaning Scepticism915Avoiding Strict Finitism1436The Manifestation Argument is Dead1597Long Live the Manifestation Argument1958Truth as Knowable2459Analyticity and Syntheticity28110Finding the right logic30511Cognitive Significance Regained35512Defeasibility and Constructive Falsifiability40313Summary and Conclusion435Bibliography439Index449
