Truth and the Past (Columbia Themes in Philosophy)
Contributors: Akeel Bilgrami (Foreword)
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: January 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780231131766
Subjects: Epistemology, theory of knowledge; Metaphysics & ontology; Western philosophy, from c 1900 -; Philosophy; Epistemology; Philosophy / General; Metaphysics; Time; Truth; Waarheid.; gtt
First sentence: The distinction between linguistic utterances and what they express is borne in on us by many common experiences, for instance, that of finding out how to say something in another language, and that of rephrasing something we have said to make it clear to our hearer.