Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

[deleted] t1_jbfoy4h wrote

Reply to comment by XiphosAletheria in There is nothing to say about truth, admits Simon Blackburn. Here he presents the deflationist approach to truth – one that aims to put an end to the search for a theory of truth, which Blackburn now recognises is futile by IAI_Admin

I can understand all of that, but it seems like you would agree with the OP. There is no BIG T Truth, but there are many little truths and should be sought out on the bases of utility.

I don't think that professor Blackburn thinks the truths are unimportant at all, but he might say that Truth big T is ineffable.

2

XiphosAletheria t1_jbg8ifr wrote

I am not sure that Truth with a big T even makes sense. Unless you are religious maybe, but even then the truth about the existence of God, although very important, would still be a truth about a specific thing, and so a "little" truth in that sense.

3