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When Truth Gives Out (Paperback)
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When Truth Gives Out (Paperback)
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Is the point of belief and assertion invariably to think or say
something true? Is the truth of a belief or assertion absolute, or
is it only relative to human interests? Most philosophers think it
incoherent to profess to believe something but not think it true,
or to say that some of the things we believe are only relatively
true. Common sense disagrees. It sees many opinions, such as those
about matters of taste, as neither true nor false; it takes it as
obvious that some of the truth is relative.
Mark Richard's accessible book argues that when it comes to truth,
common sense is right, philosophical orthodoxy wrong. The first
half of the book examines connections between the performative
aspects of talk (what we do when we speak), our emotions and
evaluations, and the conditions under which talk and thought
qualifies as true or false. It argues that the performative and
expressive sometimes trump the semantic, making truth and falsity
the wrong dimension of evaluation for belief or assertion. Among
the topics taken up are: racial slurs and other epithets; relations
between logic and truth; the status of moral and ethical talk;
vagueness and the liar paradox. The book's second half defends the
idea that much of everyday thought and talk is only relatively true
or false. Truth is inevitably relative, given that we cannot work
out in advance how our concepts will apply to the world. Richard
explains what it is for truth to be relative, rebuts standard
objections to relativism, and argues that relativism is consistent
with the idea that one view can be objectively better than another.
The book concludes with an account of matters of taste and of how
it is possible for divergent views of such matters to be equally
valid, even if not true or false.
When Truth Gives Out will be of interest not only to philosophers
who work on language, ethics, knowledge, or logic, but to any
thoughtful person who has wondered what it is, or isn't, for
something to be true.
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