http://www.propertarianism.com/2015/05/29/definitions-truth/YES WE CAN DEMAND THAT PEOPLE WARRANTY THE TRUTHFULNESS OF THEIR STATEMENTS
CURT—“Why can’t we demand that people warranty the truthfulness of their statements?”—
RICHARD—“because truth is determined, if at all, by debate and testing, and what cannot be stated while untested is unlikely to receive the scrutiny needed to determine its truth or falsity.”—
CURT:
This is not true. TRUTHFULNESS, in all walks of life, not only in the physical sciences, is the result of performance of due diligence: criticism of our testimony. The act of laundering imagination, fantasy, bias, error and deception from our testimony. Justification is false. There are no non-trivial complete premises. We can criticize our extant understanding as thoroughly as possible, but we can never know if we are informationally complete.
Testimony is unnatural to man. Which is why westerner’s are unique in its construction as a norm: it’s prohibitively expensive.
Analytic truth (the case you use in your statement above), is impossible to know for other than tautological and trivial statements.
DEFINITIONS: TRUTH, TRUTHFULNESS, AND HONESTY
http://www.propertarianism.com/2015/05/29/definitions-truth/
DUE DILIGENCE NECESSARY FOR WARRANTY OF TRUTHFULNESS
http://www.propertarianism.com/2015/06/04/due-diligence-necessary-for-the-warranty-of-truthfulness/
Source date (UTC): 2015-06-05 07:16:00 UTC
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