My concern in this paper shall be with the idea that truth is in some way relative to a possible world. There is no doubt something right about this sort of slogan, but nonetheless, most of what I have to say about it will be negative. In particular, I shall argue that relativity of truth to a world plays no substantial role in the empirical semantics of natural language as it is standardly don...

Defenders of the prosentential theory of truth claim that the English language contains prosentences which function analogously to their better known cousins – pronouns. Statements such as ‘That is true’ or ‘It is true’, they claim, inherit their content from antecedent statements, just as pronouns inherit their reference from antecedent singular terms. Prosentential theorists claim that the co...

Horwich (Mind 123(491), 2014) has argued that only someone with inflationary tendencies could feel inclined to endorse truth relativism. In doing so, he argues deflationism about entails the denial of If sound, Horwich’s argument entail relativism is incompatible any conception our ordinary predicate according which there some sort equivalence between a ground-language claim p and corresponding...

MIDI files abound and provide a bounty of information for music informatics. We enumerate the types of information available in MIDI files and describe the steps necessary for utilizing them. We also quantify the reliability of this data by comparing it to human-annotated ground truth. The results suggest that developing better methods to leverage information present in MIDI files will facilita...

We developed a software tool to assist table understanding research. It can analyze any given table ground truth and generate documents that include similar table elements while have more variety on both table and non-table parts. Based on our novel content matching ground truthing idea, the table ground truth data for the generated table elements become available with little manual work. The v...

Within the linguistics literature it is often claimed that epistemic modality, unlike other kinds of modality, does not contribute to truth-conditional content. In this paper I challenge this view. I reanalyze a variety of arguments which have been used in support of the non-truth-conditional view and show that they can be handled on an alternative analysis of epistemic modality. # 2006 Elsevie...

In the case of a philosophical work... such an explanation seems not only superfluous but, in view of the nature of the subject-matter, even inappropriate and misleading. For whatever might appropriately be said about philosophy in a preface – say a historical statement of the main drift and the point of view, the general content and results, a string of random assertions and assurances about t...

within the linguistic paradigm, there is a problem that was always connected with coherence conceptions of truth: how we may, in light of the evidence available to us, raise an unconditional truth claim that aims beyond what is justified. in other words, within the linguistic paradigm, if the truth of a proposition can no longer be conceived as correspondence with something in the world, then h...

the basic aim of this research is description and deduction of principles, aims, and methods based on the epistemological foundations of farabi in fusus al-hikmah. to get this aim, the method was documentary analysis and deduction. findings show that: necessary being is aware of all contingent beings, there is a unity between the essence of god as a ultimate truth and his knowledge, necessary b...