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

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 Reference

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.