A sentence must never be interpreted out of context, as any scholar knows. It is pointless, furthermore, to suggest that separate sentences are true out of a context of linguistic and nonlinguistic ...

Regarding Dennis D. Morgan’s letter, “Old days were better in many ways” (April 30): Mr. Morgan believes that global warming is a myth, yet offers us no evidence to support this. Global warming may be ...

Critics of attempts to explain meaning in terms of truth-conditions have tended to charge their opponents with misconceptions regarding truth. I shall argue that the 'naïve' version of the ...

Truth has carried a lot of weight for a long time. In the 1940s and 1950s on radio and television, a game show called “Truth or Consequences” featured panelists whose task was to determine which one ...

When we overemphasise truth over and against meaning, we foster a sense of alienation and deliver the public into the hands ...

"I know it when I see it.” How do we define or quantify what we recognize instantly and viscerally, yet struggle to name or ...

When the meaning of life is brought up, the usual attitude towards it is mystification. Few people in modern times take the meaning of life for granted. They assume that it is the same as the mystery ...