Full Idea
In distinguishing between what can establish a statement about the past as true and what it is that that statement says, we are repudiating antirealism about the past.
Gist of Idea
I no longer think what a statement about the past says is just what can justify it
Source
Michael Dummett (Truth and the Past [2001], 3)
Book Reference
Dummett,Michael: 'Truth and the Past (Dewey Lectures)' [Columbia 2004], p.52
A Reaction
This is a late shift of ground from the champion of antirealism. If Dummett's whole position is based on a 'justificationist' theory of meaning, he must surely have a different theory of meaning now for statements about the past?