This text poses a broad challenge to the realist views of meaning and truth. Starting with a critical survey of the realism debate, the author then presents a defence of the anti-realist view that every truth is knowable in principle, and that grasp of meaning must be able to be made manifest.
The Taming of the True defends and develops global semantic anti-realism. Neil Tennant argues compellingly that every truth is knowable, and that manifestationism in the theory of meaning entails logical reform. He extends semantic anti-realism to empirical discourse, developing new accounts of the analytic/synthetic distinction, cognitive significance and constructive falsifiability. The book has important consequences for the philosophy of mathematics and logic, the theory of meaning, metaphysics, and epistemology.
a new major and systematic monograph on the realism debate, written by a very skillful and sophisticated defender of anti-realism ... very lucidly written, and the main arguments are well signposted, presented, and summarized ... a very advanced work.
