A notion of truth as applicable to events of fact-stating use (utterances) of a sentence type is arguably presupposed and required by our evaluative practices of the use of language. The truth of an utterance clearly depends on what the utterance says. This fundamental dependence seems to be captured by the schema that if an utterance u says that P , then u is true iff P . Such a schema may thu...

it is widely held that although very few works by muslim philosophers deal exclusively with art and beauty, nonetheless specific discussions on these subjects can be extracted from their works. this is certainly true in the case of qadi said qummi, who gives a separate treatment of art and beauty in his commentary on the fourth chapter of the uthulojia (the theology of aristotle). the essential...