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Full Idea
Boghossian argues that minimalism is incoherent because it says truth both is and is not a property; the essence of minimalism is that, unlike traditional theories, truth is not a property, yet properties are needed to explain the theory.
Gist of Idea
Minimalism is incoherent, as it implies that truth both is and is not a property
Source
report of Paul Boghossian (The Status of Content [1990]) by Paul Horwich - Truth (2nd edn) Post.8
Book Ref
Horwich,Paul: 'Truth (2nd edn)' [OUP 1998], p.142
A Reaction
I doubt whether this is really going to work as a demolition, because it seems to me that no philosophers are even remotely clear about what a property is. If properties are defined causally, it is not quite clear how truth would ever be a property.
6022 | Someone who says 'it is day' proposes it is day, and it is true if it is day [Zeno of Citium, by Diog. Laertius] |
6087 | Without the disquotation device for truth, you could never form beliefs from others' testimony [McGinn] |
6086 | Truth is the property of propositions that makes it possible to deduce facts [McGinn] |
6345 | Minimalism is incoherent, as it implies that truth both is and is not a property [Boghossian, by Horwich] |
4751 | Maybe there is no more to be said about 'true' than there is about the function of 'and' in logic [Engel] |
17990 | Instances of minimal truth miss out propositions inexpressible in current English [Hofweber] |
4687 | Minimal theories of truth avoid ontological commitment to such things as 'facts' or 'reality' [PG] |