Partnership in Truth-Making

• DOI: 10.1007/s11245-009-9078-z
• Publication Date: 2010-04-26T06:08:25Z
• Authors: Richard Fumerton
• Keywords: 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine; 06 humanities and the arts; 0603 philosophy, ethics and religion

After arguing that truth-making is properly construed as a partnership between truth bearers and truth-makers, I focus on two prominent arguments against the category of fact as one of the key relata in the truth-making relation. After rejecting those arguments, I go on to examine a more difficult issue, one that might force us to appreciate more fully the robust role that thought has in “creating” truth.