> Steve continued: > ... if we think of truth as "warranted assertibility" then you have a > relativistic notion of truth since what one person at a given time is > justified in believing about a given proposition is not the same as what a > different person in a different time and place is justified in believing. > > dmb says: > Pragmatic truth is plural so that there can be more than one truth about any > given subject matter. Pragmatic truth is also provisional so that it can grow > and evolve. Despite the mutability and flexibility of these plural and > provisional truths, they are still constrained by concepts and by experience. > This is a middle path between relativism and absolutism. We don't suppose > there is just one exclusive truth and we don't suppose the truth is somewhere > waiting to be discovered. Truths are not found so much as they are invented.
Steve: Certainly the there are an inexhaustible number of true claims to make in any situation, but do you mean something more than that in your phrase "more than one truth"? Are you suggesting that true claims can contradict one another? It is possible that common usage of the word "true" will evolve to allow for contradictory truth claims to coexist. You seem to be willing to bite the relativism bullet in that respect, but I believe we can maintain the notion that truths aren't supposed to contradict one another without reverting to SOM simply by maintaining truth and justified beliefs as distinguishable concepts by maintaining the cautionary usage of "truth" where we say things like, "you are justified in believing that now, but it may not be true. i.e., We may determine later that it isn't good to believe that after all." Best, Steve Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
