TRUTH, IDENTITY AND COMMON SENSE. PART I. TWO AND A HALF IDENTITY THEORIES
The present paper is a result of not so much a sound scientific interest which should motivate a scholar in the best of worlds, but of my personal affection towards philosophical curiosities. In its first and present part I describe and discuss three varieties of one of the most peculiar theories of truth among those that have any support today - the identity theory. In the forthcoming parts of this paper I am going to make some generalizations, pertaining to some proper features and fundamental problems of this theory and offer in light of it an interpretation of the most bizarre philosophical treatise that I have ever read - Irad Kimhi’s recent Thinking and Being. My slightly frivolous motivation to write on these two matters can be, I hope, excused by the fact that they do in fact bear some genuine scientific interest: there is absolutely nothing to read on identity theory in Russian and Kimhi’s book is such an inscrutable philosophical labyrinth, that even a simple attempt to explain author’s general intent can, I think, be regarded as quite a respectable academic enterprise.