Kvanvig on Pointless Truths and the Cognitive Ideal |
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Authors: | J Adam Carter |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Philosophy, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland |
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Abstract: | Jonathan Kvanvig has recently attempted to reconcile the problem of (apparently) pointless truths with the claim that the
value of truth is unrestricted—that truth is always and everywhere valuable. In this paper, I critically evaluate Kvanvig’s
argument and show it to be defective at a crucial juncture. I propose my own alternative strategy for generating Kvanvig’s
result—an alternative that parts ways with Kvanvig’s own conception of the cognitively ideal. |
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