Truth as Conceptually Primitive

Theories of truth, in the sense understood here, are supposed to provide ‘conceptual analyses’ of the concept of truth. I take this to mean that theories of truth are supposed to state what anyone who has any beliefs that this or that is true must be at least disposed to accept about truth upon consideration; such claims are conceptually analytic. I engage in talk of ‘concepts’ as shorthand for claims about what subjects are able to believe. To have the concept of truth is to be able to believe that things are true. Read no more than that into my talk of the concept of truth. A conception of truth is a set of putatively conceptually analytic claims for it. The aim in the theory of truth is to state the actual conception of truth, the one that includes all and only claims that anyone who has any beliefs that anything is true must be disposed to accept upon consideration. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.