A Path to a Conception of Symbolic Truth

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.

This book deals with correspondence truth, and offers an explanation of correspondence as a symbolization of reality. The author analyses those basic elements of known correspondence truth theories which are the cause of their inadequacy. She focuses on the theories which try to modify the strongest classical theories and shows that these theories are unable to free themselves from seeing correspondence as copying (mirroring). The book presents a «symbolic» correspondence truth theory claiming that correspondence is a specific kind of symbolisation in a Cassirer-close sense, and correspondence truth is neither a copy, nor any other imitation of reality, but its symbol.

Autorentext

Mägorzata 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.

Inhalt

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