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Simon Blackburn • On Truth
A great response to that question comes in Simon Blackburn’s book, Think, which has a whole section devoted to answering it. In it, he offers this reply:
Lawrence Yeo • The Right Side of Thought - More To That
human belief systems are good at absorbing contradictions into their thinking.
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
They can be true or false.
Michael Huemer • Knowledge, Reality, and Value: A Mostly Common Sense Guide to Philosophy
Brandom’s complex alternative is that our descriptions constitute a system of socially constituted rational commitments, and that only linguistic rules, socially articulated and enforced, are capable of giving our words any meaning at all. Saying something meaningful requires making explicit what is already implicit in our use of concepts, rather t
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