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Vanzo, Alberto (2012) Kant on truth-aptness. History and Philosophy of Logic, Volume 33 (Number 2). pp. 109-126. doi:10.1080/01445340.2011.606645 ISSN 0144-5340.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01445340.2011.606645
Abstract
Many scholars claimed that, according to Immanuel Kant, some judgements lack a truth-value: analytic judgements, judgements about items of which humans cannot have experience, judgements of perception, and non-assertoric judgements. However, no one has undertaken an extensive examination of the textual evidence for those claims.
Based on an analysis of Kant's texts, I argue that:
(1) according to Kant, only judgements of perception are not truth-apt. All other judgements are truth-apt, including analytic judgements and judgements about items of which humans cannot have experience.
(2) Kant sometimes states that truth-apt judgements are actual bearers of truth or falsity only when they are taken to state what is actually the case. Kant calls these judgements assertoric. Other texts ascribe truth and falsity to judgements, regardless of whether they are assertoric.
Kant's views on truth-aptness raise challenges for correspondentist and coherentist interpretations of Kant's theory of truth; they rule out the identification of Kant's crucial notion of objective validity with truth-aptness; and they imply that Kant was not a verificationist about truth or meaning.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804 -- Criticism and interpretation, Truth | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | History and Philosophy of Logic | ||||
Publisher: | Taylor and Francis | ||||
ISSN: | 0144-5340 | ||||
Official Date: | 2012 | ||||
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Volume: | Volume 33 | ||||
Number: | Number 2 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 27 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 109-126 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1080/01445340.2011.606645 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
Copyright Holders: | Taylor & Francis | ||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 26 December 2015 | ||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 26 December 2015 |
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