The Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth

In Felicia Ackerman (ed.), Midwest Studies in Philosophy. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. pp. 20–35 (1981)
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This chapter contains sections titled: The Trouble with “Truth” and “Truths” Problems with Partial Truth (and Some Vagaries of Vagueness)

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Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth ‐ this dual role of the word “truth” giving rise to trouble   trouble with “truth” and “truths ” ‐ truth, true‐ness, is not to be identified with acceptance‐as‐true   Falsity – seems to function, with rare exceptions, as an abstract noun   many theories of truth ‐ what it is for a claim to be true is the same, regardless of what the claim is about   vagueness is usually contrasted with precision ‐ and precision, like vagueness, is subtler than is sometimes supposed   ambiguity – has too many meanings, and is very opposite of vagueness   partial truth in the first sense (a proposition that is not wholly true) ‐ is, strictly speaking, just plain false   problems with partial truth and some vagaries of vagueness   deliberate vagueness and deliberately partial truth ‐ sometimes benign

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reprint Haack, Susan (2008) "The whole truth and nothing but the truth". Midwest Studies in Philosophy 32(1):20-35

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