Truth and Other Enigmas
1978 — essays on realism, meaning, and truth
Work
1978 collection including 'Truth' — verificationism vs realism debate central to our Real tier argument.
Primary publication. Dummett, M. (1978). Truth and Other Enigmas. London: Duckworth. Key essay: “Truth” (orig. 1959; revised in collection).
Claims we engage
- Justificationism: assertibility conditions exhaust or constrain truth — would erase a robust tier 0 Real if taken as metaphysics.
- Our response: tier 0 (Rᶜ, Rⁿ, acts) is not a claim ladder rung; verification applies to claims (tier 2+), not to the existence of uncaptured events.
Corpus stance
Context / contrast — we name the position to mark what we are not saying when we posit Real independent of capture.