Lexicon of Arguments

 

Rorty I 309
Concept of Truth/truth/Putnam/Rorty: the concept of truth has certain properties. Putnam: if a statement is true, then its logical consequences are also true, when two statements are true, then their conjunction is also true. If a statement is now true, then it is always true.
>Logical omniscience.
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Putnam VI 394
Truth has to do with speaker-use (success), not with what is going on "in the head" (> verification degrees, confirmation degrees).
>Use, >Convention, >Speaker meaning, >Confirmation, >Verification, >Graduals, >Confirmation degrees.
Meaning/Putnam: meaning is also a function of the reference (not only in the head). Reference/Putnam: reference is determined by social practices and actual physical paradigms.
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Harman II 431
Truth/Putnam: the only reason one can have to deny that truth is a property would be that one is a physicalist or phenomenalist (= reductionist) or cultural relativist.
>Physicalism, >Reductionism, >Phenomenalism, >Cultural relativism, cf. >Deflationism.
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Horwich I 456
Truth/Putnam: if it was not a property, the truth conditions were everything you could know about them.
Putnam: then our thoughts would not be thoughts.
>Thoughts.

(Richard Rorty (1986), "Pragmatism, Davidson and Truth" in E. Lepore (Ed.) Truth and Interpretation. Perspectives on the philosophy of Donald Davidson, Oxford, pp. 333-55. Reprinted in:
Paul Horwich (Ed.) Theories of truth, Dartmouth, England USA 1994.)
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Putnam III 96f
Truth/deconstructivism/PutnamVsDerrida: Derrida: "The concept of truth itself is inconsistent but indispensable". PutnamVs: the failure of a large number of contradictory statements is something else than a failure of the concept of truth itself.
Truth/Putnam: truth is not "what I would believe if I continue researching". Putnam: the philosophy of language got only troubled because they believed that they could clear out the normative.
>Norms/Putnam.
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Putnam I (h) 204f
Truth/PutnamVsRorty: when some ideas "pay out", then there is the question of the nature of this accuracy.
>Truth/Rorty, cf. >Pragmatism.