Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 19:51:00 +0000
Subject: BHA: Bhaskar and truth


Hi all

I have just been revisiting RBs stuff on truth - the tetrapolity. I found some discussion on the list back in 1998 - can anyone think of anything much written about it since then?

A couple of questions:

i) It struck me as in fact very similar to the old definition of knowledge as true, justified, belief

Belief - normative fiduciary - this is something I believe
Justified - adequating and warrented - there is justification for it
True - some combination of referential-expressive and ontological/alethic

Is this an interesting contrast or just a coincidence?

ii) I still couldn't really make any sense of referential-expressive even with a bit of extra explanation from Mervyn. Could anyone help me with this, especially with some examples?

Cheers

John


Dr. John Mingers
Professor of OR and Systems
 Warwick Business School
 Warwick University
 Coventry CV4 7AL UK
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