Summary
For readers already familiar with Dummett's works, one of the main interests of this set of lectures lies in the fact that (as Dummett explains in the preface) it endorses a conception of truth which, in contrast with the one propounded in his 2002 Dewey lectures (published as Truth and the Past, New York, Columbia U. Press, 2004), licenses an asymmetric treatment of past and future tense statements.
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Thought and Reality
DUMMETT, Michael. Thought and Reality. Lines of Thought Series. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006. ix + 111 pp. Cloth, $29.95-This tiny book comprises slightly revised versions of the Gifford lectures that Dummett gave at St. Andrews in 1996-97. Roughly ...
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