It doesn't matter whether you're conservative or liberal, religious or skeptical, the very fact that you are able to understand the words you're reading right now-that we are all able to communicate with each other using language-means we must share a vast body of beliefs. While language may shape the way we think about the world to some small extent, it makes much more sense to say truth shapes language to a very large extent. That's the central argument of this book: Truth is the condition that makes language possible. Inspired by Donald Davidson's philosophy, Weiner takes a bold philosophical argument against linguistic relativism and 'alternative realities' to its limit, and he does so in an direct style that's astonishingly easy-to-read. NEAL WEINER taught philosophy at Marlboro College from 1970-2007. He was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at the University of Chicago and a Danforth Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, where he did his doctoral work on Plato. St. John's College University of Chicago University of Texas at Austin, Ph.D.