What Truth Is
Mark Jago offers a new metaphysical account of truth. He argues that to be true is to be made true by the existence of a suitable worldly entity. Truth arises as a relation between a proposition - the content of our sayings, thoughts, beliefs, and so on - and an entity (or entities) in the world.
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Mark Jago presents and defends a novel metaphysical theory of what truth is. He argues that truth is a real thing in the world - a property - so that the things we say can be objectively true or false. The first part of the book discusses the property being true, and how we should understand it, metaphysically speaking. The second part focuses on the entities which make various kinds of truths true, and how they do so. The third part analyses the logic and metaphysics of the making true relation. The final part discusses consequences of the theory for language and logic, including the Liar paradox and other puzzles surrounding truth.
