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Full Idea
If our linguistic conventions entitle us to assert a sentence, they thereby make it true, because of the maxim that 'truth is the norm of assertion'.
Gist of Idea
A maxim claims that if we are allowed to assert a sentence, that means it must be true
Source
Vann McGee (Logical Consequence [2014], 8)
Book Ref
'Bloomsbury Companion to Philosophical Logic', ed/tr. Horsten,L/Pettigrew,R [Bloomsbury 2014], p.50
A Reaction
You could only really deny that maxim if you had no belief at all in truth, but then you can assert anything you like (with full entitlement). Maybe you can assert anything you like as long as it doesn't upset anyone? Etc.
| 18751 | Natural language includes connectives like 'because' which are not truth-functional [McGee] |
| 18754 | Logically valid sentences are analytic truths which are just true because of their logical words [McGee] |
| 18755 | Validity is explained as truth in all models, because that relies on the logical terms [McGee] |
| 18753 | An ontologically secure semantics for predicate calculus relies on sets [McGee] |
| 18757 | Soundness theorems are uninformative, because they rely on soundness in their proofs [McGee] |
| 18760 | The culmination of Euclidean geometry was axioms that made all models isomorphic [McGee] |
| 18761 | Second-order variables need to range over more than collections of first-order objects [McGee] |
| 18762 | A maxim claims that if we are allowed to assert a sentence, that means it must be true [McGee] |