Michael Dummett
1925–2011 — anti-realism and justificationist semantics
Author
British philosopher; argued meaning and truth are tied to conditions of verification — cited as contrast to our Real tier.
Michael Dummett (1925–2011) developed a justificationist challenge to classical realism about truth: grasp of meaning is grasp of conditions for warranted assertibility, not correspondence to mind-independent facts beyond all possible verification.
What we cite (contrast)
- Anti-realist pole — truth cannot outrun all possible evidence in principle.
- We reject collapsing Rⁿ into “what we could ever verify” — Real acts and events exist independent of capture — while accepting that claims (tier 2+) must carry warrant and provenance.
What we do not adopt
Full intuitionistic logic programme or Dummettian anti-realism as doctrine.