Some Remarks on Truth and Justification
The notion of truth is probably one of the most central notions in science and philosophy, if not in humanityβs engagement with the world in general, but it is also a somewhat problematic notion that is prone to confusion. And consequently, not all talk about βtruthβ is really about truth. A couple of years ago, I wrote a paper titled βRecognizing βTruthβ in Chinese Philosophyβ on the difficulty of recognizing concepts of βtruthβ and philosophical theories about truth in non-Western philosophy, focusing on ancient Chinese philosophy. I argued there and elsewhere that the ancient Chinese didnβt have theories of truth,...