A prolegomenon to the empirical cross‐linguistic study of truth
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20142585 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Masaharu Mizumoto (0000-0002-3138-9288, School of Knowledge Science Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Ishikawa Japan, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 88 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1248-1273 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theoria (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0040-5825 • E-ISSN: 1755-2567 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/theo.12438 |
| OpenAlex | W4308141302 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 41 |
In this paper, we propose and justify the cross‐linguistic study of the concept of truth through empirical studies of truth predicates, with results of such studies. We first conceptually explore the possibility of cross‐linguistic disagreement about truth purely due to linguistic norms governing truth predicates, which may imply a kind of pluralism about the concept of truth. We then consider the conditions under which we would be justified in inferring this sort of pluralism from the fact of such cross‐linguistic disagreement. Next, we report results of three studies on the use of English “is true” and Japanese two truth predicates, as well as “is correct” and its Japanese counterpart. We then report another set of studies using a different vignette, where the radical cross‐linguistic difference observed in earlier studies disappeared. These data together suggest that the moral‐political factor in the truth‐bearer (utterance) strongly affects the uses of Japanese truth predicates but not those of English. Finally, we will discuss the implications of the studies and results reported here, and the empirical possibility of what we call lexical alethic pluralism, for debates over relativism, theories of meaning, and the deflationary and inflationary theories of truth
Coherence theory of truth · Epistemology · Linguistics · Logical truth · Pluralism (philosophy) · Pragmatic theory of truth · Relativism · Semantic theory of truth · Truth condition · Truth value · Utterance · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
Epistemology for the Rest of the World
Truth and Pluralism
Truth and the Absence of Fact
Truth-Conditional Pragmatics
Meaning
The Myth of Conventional Implicature
V.—indexical Expressions
Deflationist Views of Meaning and Content
Large-Scale Psychological Differences Within China Explained by Rice Versus Wheat Agriculture
III-Faultless Disagreement
The Rise and Fall of Experimental Philosophy
Culture and systems of thought
The argument from accidental truth against deflationism
Common‐sense And Truth
The Influence of Social Interaction on Intuitions of Objectivity and Subjectivity
The objectivity of truth, a core truism
Faultless Disagreement and Aesthetic Realism
Skepticism, Contextualism, and Discrimination
The Semantic Conception of Truth
Is It Culture or Is It Language? Examination of Language Effects in Cross-Cultural Research on Categorization
Into the Conventional-Implicature Dimension
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |