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    Pragmatic theories of truth should sidestep the metaphysical project in favor of the speech-act and justification projects

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    • 1.The correspondence theory of truth leads to skepticism about normative inquiry by undermining the truth-aptness of normative claims
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    • 2.Preserving the truth-aptness of normative claims and the meaningfulness of normative inquiry is a desideratum for a theory of truth
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    • 3.Pragmatic theories de-emphasize the metaphysical project and thereby avoid undermining normative truth-aptness
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    • 1.Metaphysical questions about truth's nature cannot be sidestepped because speech-act and justification accounts presuppose answers to them.
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    • 2.Deflationary and correspondence theorists like Paul Horwich and Michael Devitt argue that explaining why assertions aim at truth requires prior account of what truth is.
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    • 3.A theory that only describes truth's functional role in discourse leaves unanswered why justified belief should be expected to track truth at all.
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    • 1.Hilary Putnam's internal realism shows that abandoning the metaphysical project does not dissolve but merely relocates metaphysical commitments into epistemic frameworks.
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    • 2.Identifying truth with idealized rational acceptability, as Putnam proposes, smuggles in substantive metaphysical claims about mind-world relations under epistemic vocabulary.
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    • 3.Pragmatic theories that sidestep metaphysics therefore achieve no genuine parsimony and inherit metaphysical problems without the resources to address them directly.
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    Another common commitment of pragmatic theories of truth—besides prioritizing the speech-act and justification projects—is that they do not restrict truth to certain topics or types of inquiry. That is, regardless of whether the topic is descriptive or normative, scientific or ethical, pragmatists tend to view it as an opportunity for genuine inquiry that incorporates truth-apt assertions. The truth-aptness of ethical and normative statements is a notable feature across a range of pragmatic appr
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