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Full Idea
Antirealism, with its limitations of truth to what can be ascertained, deprives truth of its role as an intersubjective standard.
Gist of Idea
Antirealism about truth prevents its use as an intersubjective standard
Source
Donald Davidson (Truth and Predication [2005], 2)
Book Ref
Davidson,Donald: 'Truth and Predication' [Belknap Harvard 2005], p.48
A Reaction
I like this, because it lifts truth out of individual minds. I take truth to be an ideal - a simple one with little content, which is thus fairly uncontroversial. Truth is the main general purpose of thinking.