Single Idea 8705

[catalogued under 3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 8. Subjective Truth]

Full Idea

For the anti-realist, truth belongs to us, it is our servant, and as such, it must be 'epistemically constrained'.

Gist of Idea

Anti-realists see truth as our servant, and epistemically contrained

Source

Michèle Friend (Introducing the Philosophy of Mathematics [2007], 5.1)

Book Reference

Friend,Michèle: 'Introducing the Philosophy of Mathematics' [Acumen 2007], p.104


A Reaction

Put as clearly as this, it strikes me as being utterly and spectacularly wrong, a complete failure to grasp the elementary meaning of a concept etc. etc. If we aren't the servants of truth then we jolly we ought to be. Truth is above us.