Truth matters: normativity in thought and knowledge

• Autores: Manuel de Pinedo
• Localización: Theoria: an international journal for theory, history and foundations of science, ISSN 0495-4548, Vol. 19, Nº 50, 2004, págs. 137-154
• Idioma: inglés
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  • If language and thougt are to be taken as objective, they must respond to how the world is. I propose to explain this responsiveness in terms of conditions of correction, more precisely, by taking thoughts and linguistic utterances to be assessible as true or false. Furthermore, the paper is committed to a form of quietism according to which the very same thing that can be (truly) thought or expressed is the case: "soft facts" as opposed to hard, free-standing facts, independent of any possible rational activity of grasping them.