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wsy | 6 years ago

After the postmodernist wave, analytic philosophers have attempted to rescue the notion of truth. All those attempts, including the ones you listed, change the meaning of 'truth' significantly, compared to how non-philosophers use that term.

None of the listed options is so convincing that everybody using their rationality would immediately agree with the proposed model of truth. That seems to indicate that also for these options, rationality alone is insufficient to establish truth, and a belief/irrational/social factor still would be at play.

I'm not implying that the mentioned approaches developed by analytic philosophers are useless. They do deepen our understanding how reasoning and fact establishing works. But in my opinion they are still very far away of solving the Münchhausen Trilemma.

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guerrilla|6 years ago

This isn't a history that an analytic philosopher would give, its just question begging from a postmodernist bias.

wsy|6 years ago

So which of those approaches is the one all rational humans would agree on, so that we can base the notion of truth on it from now on?