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When Truth Gives Out (Hardcover)
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When Truth Gives Out (Hardcover)
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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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