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Full Idea
The role of truth is to make disagreements matter, or to make sense of wanting to resolve disagreements.
Gist of Idea
Truth makes disagreements matter, or worth settling
Source
Cheryl Misak (Pragmatism and Deflationism [2007], 2)
Book Ref
'New Pragmatists', ed/tr. Misak,Cheryl [OUP 2009], p.74
A Reaction
[She cites Huw Price 2003] This suggests that the most important use of 'truth' is forensic. It is hard to make any sense of a law court without a robust sense of truth. Trial by jury, rather than some great personage, shows this value.