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Surveying the Facts
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This chapter discusses some central themes in a dispute between J. L. Austin and P. F. Strawson over the nature of truth. The dispute is of contemporary interest in part because it prefigures elements in a more recent discussion concerning the objects of perceptual experience, between for example Charles Travis and John McDowell. The dispute turned in particular on a pair of Austin’s claims: (i) that facts are able to serve as truth-makers for some statements; and (ii) that facts are (in at least some cases) worldly particulars that are capable of being perceived. The chapter considers arguments deriving from the work of Strawson and Zeno Vendler that are widely held to have undermined (i) and (ii) and shows that those arguments fail to decide the issue.
Title: Surveying the Facts
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This chapter discusses some central themes in a dispute between J.
L.
Austin and P.
F.
Strawson over the nature of truth.
The dispute is of contemporary interest in part because it prefigures elements in a more recent discussion concerning the objects of perceptual experience, between for example Charles Travis and John McDowell.
The dispute turned in particular on a pair of Austin’s claims: (i) that facts are able to serve as truth-makers for some statements; and (ii) that facts are (in at least some cases) worldly particulars that are capable of being perceived.
The chapter considers arguments deriving from the work of Strawson and Zeno Vendler that are widely held to have undermined (i) and (ii) and shows that those arguments fail to decide the issue.
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