Truth,Ramsification, and the Pluralist's Revenge |
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Authors: | Cory D. Wright |
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Affiliation: | California State University , Long Beach |
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Abstract: | Functionalists about truth employ Ramsification to produce an implicit definition of the theoretical term true, but doing so requires determining that the theory introducing that term is itself true. A variety of putative dissolutions to this problem of epistemic circularity are shown to be unsatisfactory. One solution is offered on functionalists' behalf, though it has the upshot that they must tread on their anti-pluralist commitments. |
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Keywords: | Knowledge virtue epistemology safety |
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