What Truth Is
ISBN: 9780198823810
Platform/Publisher: Oxford Academic / Oxford University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Subjects: Philosophy Logic/ Philosophy of Mathematics Philosophy of Language;

Mark Jago presents and defends a novel metaphysical theory of what truth is. He argues that truth is a real thing in the world - a property - so that the things we say can be objectively true or false. The first part of the book discusses the property being true, and how we should understand it, metaphysically speaking. The second part focuses on the entities which make various kinds of truths true, and how they do so. The third part analyses the logic andmetaphysics of the making true relation. The final part discusses consequences of the theory for language and logic, including the Liar paradox and other puzzles surrounding truth.

Mark Jago is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham. He is author of The Impossible: An Essay on Hyperintensionality (OUP 2014) and editor of Reality Making (OUP 2015).

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