True Grit - American Prints from 1900 to 1950

This chapter argues that certain important lessons about truth can only be appreciated by approaching semantic circularity from the perspective of a compositional semanticist. It e...

African American culture draws upon a rich body of traditions from Africa, Latin America, and the South, and folklore is fundamental to the African American heritage. The first wor...

In 1950, Senator Joseph McCarthy declared that the State Department was a haven for communists and traitors. Among famous targets, like Alger Hiss, the senator also named librarian...

There is nothing absurd about holding a sentence true without believing the proposition it expresses. For example, people often hold Holy Scriptures to be true without necessarily ...

A Library Journal Best Arts < Humanities Book 2022 The extraordinary true story of the U.S. sled hockey team that overcame physical adversity and internal stri...

This chapter explains how, for quasi-realism to be a distinctive meta-ethical view, quasi-realists must use the word ‘true’ in some stronger, more-than-minimal sense. It demonstrat...