The linguistic conception of truth

pp. 17-44

in: Richard J. Campbell, The concept of truth, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

Abstract

The dust raised by the hundred-year battle amongst analytic philosophers about their theories of truth has obscured a remarkable fact: almost everyone engaged in these debates agreed on what the philosophical problem of truth is. Despite their differing theories, they all had much the same conception of truth, which they had adopted quite uncritically. It is now timely to examine this common presupposition with rather more critical distance.