1779.My Question

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My question, as I try to think further about "truth," is this: What is the relation, exactly, between two distinctions, viz., meaning or force of "truth" and the criteria of truth also necessarily presupposed in properly using the term; and the job that propositions have to do in order to be true and how they actually do the job. If the meaning or force of "truth," for Toullnin, is singular and constant, the criteria of truth necessarily presupposed in using it are plural and variable. In much the same way, Lynch holds that there is always but one job for a proposition or belief to do in order to be true, even though there is always more than one way in which different propositions or beliefs can get the job done. all.

Anyhow, the question needs further thinking about.

26 Novelnber 2007the other hand, the two distinctions hardly seem to be the sa!ne~ or only verbally different."Criteria" seem to be one thing, "ways of getting the tn.i1l:h-job done," something else. But perhaps even if they are as different as they ^{~ SeelTI to be, they are nonetheless correlative, in that how a proposition or a belief gets the truth-job done and what the criteria are for detennining its truth are strictly correlated.}

(1) Touhnin's distinction between the

(2) Lynch's distinction between

That the two distin.ctions are closely related seems clear.