Traditional inflationary approaches that specify the nature of truth are attractive in certain ways; yet, while many of these theories successfully explain why propositions in certain domains of discourse are true, they fail to adequately specify the nature of truth because they run up against counterexamples when attempting to generalize across all domains. One popular consequence is skepticis...

This thesis breaks with a long semantic tradition—going back at least to Frege, and running through Montague, Davidson, Lewis and beyond—which revolves around the individual sentence, articulating the meaning of all linguistic expressions in terms of their contributions to the truth-conditions of the sentences in which they occur. By shifting the locus of truth-conditions in systematic theorizi...

In recent work on context-dependency, it has been argued that certain types of sentences give rise to a notion of relative truth. In particular, sentences containing predicates of personal taste and moral or aesthetic evaluation as well as epistemic modals are held to express a proposition (relative to a context of use) which is true or false not only relative to a world of evaluation, but othe...

Abstract The right to the truth about gross human rights violations is gradually becoming more firmly entrenched in international law. However, content and contours of are not without controversy. Some most pressing issues that have arisen extent society’s truth, scope it pursues (fact-finding or broader historical truth) relationship between seeking official acknowledgment. This article turns ...