Abstract
Michael Dummett's famous paper on 'Truth', published by the Aristotelian Society in 1959, alerted philosophers to a line of inquiry which appeared both classical and new. It combined some of this century's most distinctive philosophical ideas Frege's analysis of sense, the reflections on meaning as use in the later work of Wittgenstein, intuitionism in the philosophy of mathematics. At the same time it promised to put philosophy back into intelligible contact with its own great tradition: for the position which Dummet labelled 'anti-realism' offered a novel perspective on terrain which since Kant, perhaps incipiently since Berkeley and the attack on abstract ideas, had emerged as philosophy's heartland. Dummett's suggestion, at the end of the paper, was that by substituting
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