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Speculative Truth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

Halsbury
Halsbury
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National Research Development Corporation
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IN delivering this lecture I am to speak on some aspect of truth. The practice of examining the various contexts in which a word may be used, in order to disclose what its usages have in common as a clue to its meaning, is of respectable antiquity. If I indulge this practice I find an “embarras de richesse” in modern philosophical literature under two headings, the truth of analytic propositions and the truth of synthetic propositions: the first deals with criteria of consistency and the second with criteria of verifiability.

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Philosophy , Volume 32 , Issue 123 , October 1957 , pp. 289 - 301
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy1957

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