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Intro -- Truth Without Truths -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Part I: Alethic Nihilism Against Paradox -- 1: Introducing Alethic Nihilism -- 1.1 Propositions -- 1.2 Alethic Nihilism -- 1.3 Alethic Nihilism Compared With Deflationism -- 2: Alethic Nihilism Against Paradox -- 2.1 Nihilism Against The Liar -- 2.2 Nihilism Against Many Other Paradoxes -- 2.3 Nihilism Against Paradoxes Of Underdetermination -- 3: The Superiority Of The Nihilist Solutions To The Paradoxes -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Nihilism Against 'missing Proposition' Responses To The Paradoxes 3.3 Nihilism Against Non-classical Responses To The Paradoxes -- 3.4 Moderate Restrictionism Versus Radical Restrictionism -- 3.5 Nihilism's Immunity From Revenge -- Part Ii: Alethic Nihilism As An Error Theory -- 4: Alethic Nihilism As An Error Theory -- 4.1 Realism And Anti-realism -- 4.2 Truth And Realism -- 4.3 Objections To Error Theories (i): Radicality -- 4.4 Objections To Error Theories (ii): Indispensability Arguments -- 4.5 Advantages Of Error Theories (i): Ontological -- 4.6 Advantages Of Error Theories (ii): Epistemological -- Part Iii: In Defence Of Alethic Nihilism 5: Truth In Philosophy -- 5.1 Truth In Philosophical Theories And Definitions -- 5.2 Truth And Assertion -- 5.3 Fake News And Post-truth -- 6: Further Objections To Nihilism -- 6.1 Unintelligible Quantification? -- 6.2 The Principle Of Uniform Solution -- 6.3 The Satisfier Paradox -- Part Iv: Alethic Nihilism And Its Rivals -- 7: Inconsistency Theories -- 7.1 What Is An Inconsistency Theory? -- 7.2 Scharp's Inconsistency Theory -- 7.3 Eklund's Inconsistency Theory -- 8: Primitivism -- 8.1 Can Inconsistent Concepts Be Analysed? -- 8.2 The Omnipresence Argument -- 8.3 The Foundationalist Argument 8.4 The Argument From Logical Apparatus -- 9: Fictionalism -- 9.1 Hermeneutic Fictionalism And Revolutionary Fictionalism -- 9.2 Beall's Constructive Methodological Deflationism -- 9.3 From Cmd To Dialetheism? -- 9.4 The Psychological Implausibility Of Cmd -- 9.5 From Cmd To Alethic Nihilism -- 9.6 Armour-garb And Woodbridge's Fictionalism -- 9.7 Hermeneutic Fictionalism About Truth-talk -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index David Shoemaker. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. Oxford Available Via World Wide Web.