I hope they are okay with Neurath’s boat, because that seems to be the world we live in. That is, the problem of the criterion shows us there is no solid foundation because we are born into contingency.
There’s certainly folks who wanted a typed theory of truth (logical positivists) and there are folks who refashion truth in the image of referential integrity (coherentists), but even for them it either means giving up completeness to get a typed theory or giving up objectivity since truth must be coherent with our subjective experience. So circularity isn’t really a sign of failure, it’s just how it is, and truth isn’t really about truth, it’s about signaling (just kidding, it’s about what we care about).
I hope they are okay with Neurath’s boat, because that seems to be the world we live in. That is, the problem of the criterion shows us there is no solid foundation because we are born into contingency.
There’s certainly folks who wanted a typed theory of truth (logical positivists) and there are folks who refashion truth in the image of referential integrity (coherentists), but even for them it either means giving up completeness to get a typed theory or giving up objectivity since truth must be coherent with our subjective experience. So circularity isn’t really a sign of failure, it’s just how it is, and truth isn’t really about truth, it’s about signaling (just kidding, it’s about what we care about).