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[from 'Truth and Predication' by Donald Davidson, in 3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 8. Subjective Truth ]

Full Idea

The 'epistemic' view of truth asserts an essential tie to epistemology, and introduces a dependence of truth on what can somehow be verified by finite rational creatures.

Gist of Idea

'Epistemic' truth depends what rational creatures can verify

Source

Donald Davidson (Truth and Predication [2005], 2)

Book Reference

Davidson,Donald: 'Truth and Predication' [Belknap Harvard 2005], p.33


A Reaction

This view, which seems to be widely held, strikes me as an elementary confusion. I take truth to be fully successful belief. If you say belief can never be fully successful, then we can't know the truth - but that doesn't destroy the concept of truth.