The Twofold Objectivity of Truth

Howard Sankey

doi:10.14394/filnau.2023.0008

Autor

Howard Sankey University of Melbourne, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5168-150X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14394/filnau.2023.0008

Słowa kluczowe:

truth, facts, objectivity

Abstrakt

Truth about matters of fact is objective. This is not just because truth is objective. It is also because facts are objective. An objective fact makes an assertion of that fact true. The objectivity of the fact adds a further element of objectivity to the objective truth of the assertion. True assertions of fact are true because truth is objective and because the facts that make them true are objective. True assertions of fact are objective twice over. Their objectivity is twofold. Or, at least, that is the point I seek to establish here.

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