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| 8828 | Truth is rational acceptability |
| Full Idea: Truth, in the only sense in which we have a vital and working notion of it, is rational acceptability. | |||
| From: Hilary Putnam (Why Reason Can't be Naturalized [1981]) | |||
| A reaction: I smell a circularity somewhere in there, probably in 'rational', though it could be in 'acceptable'. Putnams's views on truth tend to shift a lot. He denies that evolutionary survival is a criterion. |