Chapter 10. Appraisive/ Evaluative Uses of ‘True’ and ‘False’

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. PREFACE vii
4. Chapter 1. The Traditional Correspondence Theory of Truth 1
5. Chapter 2. A Modified Correspondence Theory of Truth 11
6. Chapter 3. “Truth as Identity of Fact and Proposition” 19
7. Chapter 4. “Truth as Appraisal” 39
8. Chapter 5. Facts 47
9. Chapter 6. “Emotive Theory of Truth” 55
10. Chapter 7. Nicholas Rescher’s Coherence Theory of Truth 67
11. Chapter 8. Standard Conditions, Preconditions and Presuppositions, and Performative & Constative Uses, of ‘True’ and ‘False’ 77
12. Chapter 9. Conditions of Cognitive & Conditions of Performative Uses of Truth Statements 91
13. Chapter 10. Appraisive/ Evaluative Uses of ‘True’ and ‘False’ 99
14. INDEX 113
15. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 116