1. SVIJEST O MOGUĆNOSTI POGREŠKE KAO NUŽAN KRITERIJ OBJEKTIVNOSTI U DAVIDSONOVOJ METAFORI TRIANGULACIJE.
- Author
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Žontar, Igor
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TRIANGULATION , *TRUTHFULNESS & falsehood , *ERROR , *OBJECTIVITY , *CONDITIONALS (Logic) , *POSSIBILITY , *NECESSITY (Philosophy) , *CRITERION (Theory of knowledge) , *CONCEPTS - Abstract
One cannot have beliefs unless one can understand their propositional content. This idea, combined with the claim that in order to understand a proposition one must know what its truth conditions are, entails that a creature has beliefs only if it understands that they can be true or false. And since such an understanding requires the possession of the concepts of belief and objective truth, only creatures that have these concepts can have beliefs and understand each other at all. But, triangulation is required to create the space for error and to allow for the acquisition of the concept of objective truth. The possibility of error is only indication of the existence of such objectivity. We all possess the concept of objectivity only if we are aware of the possibility of error. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2010