Primitive Disclosive Alethism

Nulty, Timothy J.

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“…562–3), Khatchadourian (2011, pp. i–ii, 2–3), Lowe (2007, p. 259), Nulty (2007, 2008), and Schaffer (2008, p. 309). Additionally, on axiomatic and primitivist theories of truth, see Halbach (2011, chap.…”

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Primitivist theories of truth: Their history and prospects

Wyatt¹

2022

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Primitivists about truth maintain that truth cannot be analysed in more fundamental terms. Defences of primitivism date back to the early years of analytic philosophy, being offered by G.E. Moore, Bertrand Russell, and Gottlob Frege. In more recent years, a number of contemporary philosophers-including Donald Davidson, Ernest Sosa, Trenton Merricks, Douglas Patterson, and Jamin Asay-have followed suit, defending their own versions of primitivism. I'll begin by offering a brief history of primitivism, situating each of these views within the landscape of primitivist truth theories and detailing some of their core motivations and apparent shortcomings. To close the discussion, I'll offer a diagnosis of the prospects of primitivism, focusing on the mystery challenge, which has loomed large throughout the history of primitivist truth theories, and the methodology that should be used in evaluating primitivist (and other) truth theories going forward.

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Primitivist theories of truth: Their history and prospects

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2022

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The Primitivist Theory of Truth

Asay

2013

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Jamin Asay's book offers a fresh and daring perspective on the age-old question 'What is truth?', with a comprehensive articulation and defence of primitivism, the view that truth is a fundamental and indefinable concept. Often associated with Frege and the early Russell and Moore, primitivism has been largely absent from the larger conversation surrounding the nature of truth. Asay defends primitivism by drawing on a range of arguments from metaphysics, philosophy of language and philosophy of logic, and navigates between correspondence theory and deflationism by reviving analytic philosophy's first theory of truth. In its exploration of the role that truth plays in our cognitive and linguistic lives, The Primitivist Theory of Truth offers an account of not just the nature of truth, but the foundational role that truth plays in our conceptual scheme. It will be valuable for students and scholars of philosophy of language and of metaphysics.

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Is Truth Primitive?

Wyatt

2022

The Philosophical Quarterly

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Primitivist theories of truth have been defended by some of the luminaries of analytic philosophy, including the early Moore and Russell, Frege, Davidson, and Sosa. In this paper, I take up a contemporary primitivist theory that has been systematically developed throughout a sizeable body of work but has yet to receive sustained critical attention—Jamin Asay's primitivist deflationism. Asay's major ambitions are to defend a novel primitivist account of the concept truth and to harmonise that account with a deflationary theory of the property truth. I will elaborate a thoroughgoing critique of primitivist deflationism, arguing that we have reason to doubt all of the five theses that constitute the view. Along the way, I will also highlight a number of possible escape routes for the primitivist deflationist, explaining how they can make the view more resilient even as they compel us to rework some of its central commitments.

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Primitive Disclosive Alethism

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Primitivist theories of truth: Their history and prospects

Primitivist theories of truth: Their history and prospects

The Primitivist Theory of Truth

Is Truth Primitive?

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