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Is truth a normative concept?

Paul Horwich

pp. 1127-1138

Abstract

My answer will be ‘no’. And I’ll defend it by: (i) distinguishing a concept’s having normative import from its being functionally normative; (ii) sketching a method for telling whether or not a concept is of the latter sort; (iii) responding to the antideflationist, Dummettian argument (extended in different directions by Crispin Wright, Huw Price, and Michael Lynch) in favor of the conclusion that truth is functionally normative; (iv) proceeding to address a less familiar route to that conclusion—one that’s consistent with deflationism about truth, but that depends on the further assumption that meaning is intrinsically normative; and (v) arguing that this further assumption is mistaken.

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Published in:

Ulatowski Joseph, Wright Cory (2018) Minimalism about truth. Synthese 195 (3).

Pages: 1127-1138

DOI: 10.1007/s11229-016-1208-8

Full citation:

Horwich Paul (2018) „Is truth a normative concept?“. Synthese 195 (3), 1127–1138.