We take ourselves to be able to access the truth about logic, mathematics, and other nonempirical matters, but it is difficult to reconcile the possibility of such access with a naturalistic worldview. Although it was once thought that we might be able to dissolve this epistemological mystery by embracing the view that certain sentences owe their truth values wholly to our linguistic conventions, the consensus among contemporary theorists is that truth by convention is an absurdity. I show that this consensus is mistaken: contrary to what is almost universally thought, a tenable conventionalist theory is indeed available.
Topey, Brett Matthew,
"Apriority for Empiricists: Making Sense of Truth by Convention"
(2018).
Philosophy Theses and Dissertations.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://doi.org/10.26300/dcn6-8y40
