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Philosophers who are concerned (as Tarski and Davidson are not) to tell us something about truth which will explain or underwrite the success of our search for truth are like philosophers who want to tell us more about “good” than that it is used to commend, something which will explain or underwrite moral progress. But there may be little of this sort to be said. To use the analogy with moral philosophy once again, it is no help in understanding either why “good” is indefinable, or how it is used, to explain that a good action is one which corresponds to the Form of the Good, or to the Moral ...more
Patrick Jimenez
December 2, 2020. Page 281.
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature: Thirtieth-Anniversary Edition (Princeton Classics)
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