Realism, Meaning and Truth.

Abstract

Part 1 The negative programme: truth-conditions and criteria Strawson on anti-realism realism, truth-value links, other minds and the past strict finitism anti-realism, timeless truth and 1984 theories of meaning and speakers' knowledge scientific realism, observation and the verification principle misunderstandings made manifest. Part 2 The positive programme: anti-realist semantics - the role of criteria second thoughts about criteria can Davidsonian meaning-theory be construed in terms of assertibility? anti-realism and revisionism realism, bivalence and classical logic.