Két érv az igazság definiálhatatlansága mellett

Abstract

Primitivism about truth (alethic primitivism) is the view that the truth is a fundamental, primitive notion and as such it cannot be defined in terms of other, presumably, more fundamental notions. While alethic primitivism is a serious alternative to substantive and deflationary theories of truth, very few philosophers have attempted to argue for it. In my article, in addition to reconstructing a well-known argument for the indefinability of truth, I discuss a new kind of argument. Firstly, I delineate Gottlob Frege’s so-called circularity or regression argument and his omnipresence thesis, and secondly, based on George Edward Moore’s open question argument intended to support the view that the notion of good is indefinable, I examine an argument for the indefinability of truth.