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Truth and Collective Truth

 

作者: Gilbert Plumer,  

 

期刊: Dialectica  (WILEY Available online 1996)
卷期: Volume 50, issue 1  

页码: 3-24

 

ISSN:0012-2017

 

年代: 1996

 

DOI:10.1111/j.1746-8361.1996.tb00116.x

 

出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd

 

数据来源: WILEY

 

摘要:

AbstractThe paper argues for the applicability of the notion of collective truth as opposed to distributive truth, that is, truth at times or possibilia taken in groups rather than individually. The underlying reasoning is that there are transtemporal and transworld relationships, e.g., those involving the relations ofbeing a descendant ofandthinking about.Relationshipsareone type of) truth‐makers. Hence, there are transtemporal and transworld truth‐makers. There fore, there is transtemporal and transworld truth, i.e., collective truth. A semantics is developed (formalized in the appendix) which embodies the notion of collective truth, and which thereby, it is argued, has various advantages over standard intensional semantics. For example, it avoids a commitment to certain impossible entit

 

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