I like this proposal. In light of the issues raised in this post, it’s important for people to come into the custom of explaining their own criteria for “truth” instead of leaving what they are talking about ambiguous. I tend not to use the word much myself, in fact, because I find it more helpful to describe exactly what kind of reality judgments I am interested in arriving at. Basically, we shouldn’t be talking about the world as though we have actual means of knowing things about it with probability 1.
I like this proposal. In light of the issues raised in this post, it’s important for people to come into the custom of explaining their own criteria for “truth” instead of leaving what they are talking about ambiguous. I tend not to use the word much myself, in fact, because I find it more helpful to describe exactly what kind of reality judgments I am interested in arriving at. Basically, we shouldn’t be talking about the world as though we have actual means of knowing things about it with probability 1.