Thomas Hobbes's Doctrine of Meaning and Truth

Philosophy 31 (116):3 - 22 (1956)
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It is generally acknowledged that Hobbes's radical scepticism is intimately connected with his nominalism, and that his nominalism in turn rests upon the doctrine of meaning and truth set out in its best-known version in Chapters 4 and 5 of Leviathan

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