Truth, rightness, and permanent acceptability

Synthese 95 (1):107 - 117 (1993)
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Goodman and Elgin want truth to be demoted and rightness to be promoted. In the first part of this paper the main reasons they offer for this reorientation are discussed. Goodman once suggestedthat one construe truth as acceptability that is not subsequently lost, but later he quietly dropped this proposal. In the second part of this paper it is argued that ultimate acceptability is indeed neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for truth.

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Reconceptions in philosophy and other arts and sciences.Nelson Goodman - 1988 - London: Routledge. Edited by Catherine Z. Elgin.

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