08/19/2021
I’ve had continued thoughts about the validity of any truth theory since I’ve been reading Nietzsche’s Will to Power and since I’ve been rereading Bataille’s Guilty. It gave me this idea about how all theories of truth presupposes their own conception of truth. So, I talked it over with one of my friends, Erik Schulz, and he made this syllogism:
P1) A truth theory sets forth the sufficient grounds to determine whether or not a certain proposition is true.
C1) If one says “X theory of truth is true,” they are presupposing a theory of truth.
P3) If a proposition as to whether or not a certain theory of truth is true is determined in virtue of that same theory of truth, then the argument is circular.
P4) If the sufficient grounds for establishing a theory of truth is through another theory of truth, then the argument would be self-defeating.
C2) Truth-theories are either self-defeating or circular.
Just something to think about.
