Truth as One, Facts as Many: A Way to Gradual Realism
Truth as One, Facts as Many: A Way to Gradual Realism

Summary/Abstract: I will provide an account of truth as an adaptive-inferential device without eliminating the possibility of different degrees of factual objectivity. Lynch has also tried to explain the complexity of human relationships in reality with recourse to a pluralist concept of truth; I argue that to fully account for its adaptive role in the complex waves of relationships between human beings and reality, truth has to be thought of as ‘one’. On the other hand, in contrast to the deflationists, I endorse Engel's factual pluralism, formulating an idea of complex truthmakers. The influence of non-epistemic factors makes my version of realism, a gradual realism, different from Wuketitis's functional realism, where truth has an adaptive role as well, but where the role of non-epistemic reality is not taken into consideration.

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