II 83
Truth/Dummett: truth comes from the act of asserting. - Closely related: correctness: saying something true means to say something correct.
II 87ff
Truth/Dummett: truth is an objective property of what a speaker says - and this is independent of the knowledge of the speaker or his utterance reasons - Truth is explainable by the more primitive notion of correctness. - (Correctness of sentences about the future, question, command).
II 115
Truth/Dummett: truth is still necessary for deductive inferences - def valid/Dummett: an inference that contains truth.
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I 26ff
Correspondence Theory/coherence Theory: meaning comes before truth.
Davidson: Truth comes before meaning (truth conditions are defined later by the theory). - Dummett both together!
Use/truth/Wittgenstein/Dummett: use theory makes concept of truth superfluous >
meaning before truth.
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III (a) 8/9
Truth/Dummett: better: winning the game. - Therefore is necessary: in addition to declare that the goal is winning, not losing! - Part of the concept of truth is the stated goal to only make true statements.
DummettVsFrege: The aim of the truth must be established before claiming, otherwise one could express the same thought, but deny it.
III (a) 29
Truth/Dummett: in reality it is mostly about the distinction between designated /non-designated truth values. >
Truth conditions/Dummett.
III (a) 40
Truth/meaning/Dummett: "It is true that p if ... iff" is not sufficient - Use: Each conditional must be given a specific meaning. - We must be able to already understand "If P, then it is true that P"
III (a) 45
Truth/Dummett: that by which a statement is true is that by which it can be recognized as true.
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Putnam II 214
Truth/Dummett: = Justification. - Dummett believes in final verification.
PutnamVsDummett: merely idealized verification is possible. - The assertibility conditions for any sentence are not manageable. >
Assertibility conditions/Searle, >
Assertibility conditions/Soames.
We get to know the meaning conditions by acquiring a practice; that is not an algorithm, they cannot be formalized - hence rationality cannot be formalized either. >
Rationality/Putnam.
