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    It is not the case that Pragmatic theories of truth should sidestep the metaphysical project in favor of the speech-act and justification projects

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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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    • 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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