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Truth, philosophy: a property of sentences, not a property of utterances because utterances are events. See also truth conditions, truth definition, truth functions, truth predicate, truth table, truth theory, truth value, correspondence theory, coherence theory._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Postmodernism on Truth - Dictionary of Arguments
Gaus I 26 Truth/facts/Postmodernism/Ball: Various criticisms can be levelled against a postmodernist perspective on interpretation. One is that we do sometimes wish, and legitimately so, to know whether something Marx or Mill said was true. We will not be helped by being told that true/false is a specious ‘binary’. More perniciously, with its emphasis on diverse, divergent and conflicting ‘readings’ or interpretations – there are allegedly no facts, only interpretation ‘all the way down’– postmodernism is constitutionally unable to distinguish truth from falsehood and propaganda from fact. >Interpretation/Postmodernism, >Postmodernism/Ball, >History/Postmodernism, >False information, >Facts, >Correctness. VsPostmodernism: But, as critics of postmodernism note, some ‘representations’ are misrepresentations – or, more bluntly, lies – that serve to conceal and/or legitimate abuses of some human beings by others. A perspective that professes to be unable to tell fact from fiction or true statements from lies is surely unsatisfactory not only from an epistemological but from a moral point of view. >Fictions. Ball, Terence. 2004. „History and the Interpretation of Texts“. In: Gaus, Gerald F. Handbook of Political Theory. SAGE Publications._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Postmodernism Gaus I Gerald F. Gaus Chandran Kukathas Handbook of Political Theory London 2004 |