Aristotle on Truth

In this 2004 book, Paolo Crivelli discusses all the main aspects of Aristotle's views on truth and falsehood.

Paolo Crivelli (Author)

9780521036474, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 31 May 2007

356 pages
22.8 x 15.3 x 1.5 cm, 0.534 kg

'… an admirably clear and well informed account of the issues, in terms of both philosophy and scholarship. Its appendixes contain rich textual and logical examinations of particular claims … Crivelli's book should provide a foundation for much productive debate.' British Journal for the History of Philosophy

Aristotle's theory of truth, which has been the most influential account of the concept of truth from Antiquity onwards, spans several areas of philosophy: philosophy of language, logic, ontology and epistemology. In this 2004 book, Paolo Crivelli discusses all the main aspects of Aristotle's views on truth and falsehood. He analyses in detail the main relevant passages, addresses some well-known problems of Aristotelian semantics, and assesses Aristotle's theory from the point of view of modern analytic philosophy. In the process he discusses most of the literature on Aristotle's semantic theory to have appeared in the last two centuries. His book vindicates and clarifies the often repeated claim that Aristotle's is a correspondence theory of truth. It will be of interest to a wide range of readers working in both ancient philosophy and modern philosophy of language.

Acknowledgements
Notes on the text
List of abbreviations of titles of Aristotle's works
Introduction
Part I. Bearers of Truth or Falsehood: 1. States of affairs, thoughts and sentences
2. Truth conditions for predicative assertions
3. Truth conditions for existential assertions
Part II. 'Empty' Terms: 4. Truth as correspondence
5. 'Vacuous' terms and 'empty' terms
Part III. Truth and Time: 6. Truth and change
7. Truth and determinism in de Interpretatione 9
Appendices
References
Index of names
Index of subjects
Index of passages.

Subject Areas: Philosophy: logic [HPL], Analytical philosophy & Logical Positivism [HPCF5], Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500 [HPCA], Philosophy of language [CFA]