IAAJAH - IGWEBUIKE: An African Journal of Arts and Humanities
Vol. 10 No. 5, 2024
THE UNSUSTAINABLE THESIS IN THE PRAGMATIC THEORY OF TRUTH: A CRITICALANALYSIS
Eruka, C. Raphael, PhD

ABSTRACT

Every philosophy has a geo-socio-cultural locus. The pragmatic theory of truth is a historically recent contribution to philosophic endeavor from the New World. Although the nuancing can be traced to the Academic Skeptics in Ancient Greece, it is substantially the articulation of American perception of a world view into a philosophy. This paper could not have been done if the claim remained that of an articulation or even encapsulation of a regional world view. The declaration that the world of philosophy is being proffered a theory of truth in the pragmatic theory of truth supplied the raw material for this work. This paper tried to x-ray the principles and character of any truth-claims. The pragmatic theory does not meet-up with subsisting characteristic in truth-claims. It cashes in on the workable, useful, 'successful' and whatever has instrumental or cash-value; that is, that which produces results. Although these elements of the theory can be integrated into a properly developed theory of truth; in the case of the pragmatic theory of truth, this was not done. There were dislocations in the theory which cannot be reconciled to any serious attempt at developing a theory of truth. Due to the glaring deficiencies in the theory, it becomes imperative to note that the thesis in the whole project cannot be sustained. The methodological approaches to the study are the critical, historical, phenomenological and expository methods. The goal was to illuminate the theory through these methods for better appreciation and execution of the task of the paper

Keywords: pragmatic theory, ontology, phenomenon, fallibilism, scientific community.
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