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The central issue of this book is not 'What is true?' or 'What is truth?', but 'What sort of thing is true (or false)?' This question has had several answers over the centuries, but, as argued here, all the main ones are mistaken. It is not pieces of language (sentences), events in the mind (beliefs), nor transcendent objects (propositions) that are either true or false. Rather, the chief truth-bearer is what someone says (or writes). Being true or false is rooted in human talk. The book argues that the other candidates must either be rejected or understood differently from traditional...

The philosophical essays collected here cover a wide range of topics, both historical and contemporary. The historical essays are examinations of issues in the work of philosophers from Parmenides to Wittgenstein and Quine, while those on contemporary matters are chiefly concerned with the nature of knowledge and belief and the relation of science to philosophy. They have been written over a long philosophical career and are models of philosophical investigation and argument.