{"id":2383,"date":"2016-11-27T22:25:07","date_gmt":"2016-11-27T14:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zlaire.net\/events\/previous\/?p=2383"},"modified":"2016-12-03T14:24:29","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T06:24:29","slug":"matthias-schirn-truth-judgement-and-assertion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zlaire.net\/events\/previous\/2016\/11\/matthias-schirn-truth-judgement-and-assertion\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthias Schirn: Truth, Judgement and Assertion"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Speaker:<\/strong> Prof. Matthias Schirn<\/a><\/span> (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, University of Munich)
\nDate & Time:<\/strong> 3 December 2016 (Saturday), 10:00 \u2013 11:30
\nPlace:<\/strong> Xixi Cafe, Zhejiang University<\/p>\n

Abstract: <\/strong>What Frege has bequeathed to us regarding the concept of truth is not a homogeneous, coherent and systematically worked out conception. It is rather an agglomeration of remarks, scattered throughout several of his writings, on the nature of judgement and assertion, the conception of the two truth-values the True and the False as the references of declarative sentences (as objects), the relation of a (true) thought to the True, the role and the purportedly unique sense of the word \u201ctrue\u201d and its alleged redundancy on the level of both sense and assertion, the characterization of logic as the science of the most general laws of truth, the \u201ctruth-conditional\u201c approach concerning the semantics of his formal language \u2014 to mention some issues, but not all.<\/p>\n

The core of my talk will be a critical examination of what Frege says in some key passages about truth, the True and \u201cis true\u201d. Where it seems useful and enlightening, aspects of the current discussion of the concept of truth \u2014 for example, the role of this concept in minimalism about truth \u2014 may be taken into account. I shall argue (a) that Frege\u2019s reflections on the relation of a (true) thought to the True are incoherent; (b) that he fails to offer a convincing argument for rejecting the view according to which a sentence of the form \u201cThe thought that p is true\u201d expresses the subsumtion of a thought (qua object) under the concept is true; (c) that Frege seems to overlook the fact that in such a sentence, even if it is interpreted as expressing a subsumtion of this kind, we still have the relation of sense to reference, of a thought to a truth-value; (d) that he falls short of providing a cogent argument for the purported synonymy of \u201cp\u201d and \u201cThe thought that p is true\u201d and thus for the alleged redundancy of \u201cis true\u201d on the semantic level; (e) that, contrary to what he says, he has to concede that the word \u201ctrue\u201d makes an essential contribution to the thought expressed by \u201cThe thought that p is true\u201d; (f) that there are indispensable uses of the truth-predicate anyway, not only in sentences such as \u201cEverything Peter says is true\u201d but also, for example, in informal \u201cmetalogical\u201d discourse; (g) that, contrary to what Frege appears to claim, he is committed to acknowledging that true is a property (of true thoughts); (h) that it remains unclear what truth qua that which is acknowledged (but not predicated) in a judgement is supposed to be if it is neither the True nor the concept is true.<\/p>\n

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