Since 1996 a large number of additional studies have been published focusing on the disclosure of the diagnosis [ 6, 7] or when death is coming close [ 8, 9] or the impact of the social and cultural context for truth-telling [ 10], and that common beliefs about what a patient really wants to know could be misleading [ 11].
Whether or not the conditions of explanatory adequacy should be relative to an epistemic context of confirmation rather than to an ontic context of truth would become an important question in coping with the requirements for probabilistic explanations.
The content of a sentence, at a context, can also be evaluated for truth at a world other than the world of the context.
"In that context the model for truth-telling is, of course, the Holy Book, while non-truth-telling books are always suspect, only permissible if morally rewarding".
To switch metaphors, Table 1 suggests that if it is useful to think of science in any context as being a hunt for truth, there are at least five ways in which the unseen hazards or pressures toward bias may be more insidious or more dangerous than the overt hazards that most scientists have learned to expect.
In the terminology of Montague, find creates an extensional context in which truth of the premise entails truth of the conclusion, while seek creates an intensional context in which truth of the premise does not.
Importantly, Lasersohn allows that in certain circumstances we take an exocentric perspective when assessing predicates of personal taste: assessing these sentences for truth relative to contexts in which someone other than ourselves is specified as the judge (cf. "Come on, it'll be fun!" "Is this fun?" (2005: 26); cf. Stanley (2005: 10) for a response to Lasersohn's program).
Heavy charges, grave deliberations, fraught conclusions: what better context for a meditation on how truth is produced in the social sciences?
In such cases, the relevant target for deselection is what the right thing is to say in a particular context, where "truth is not sufficient for being right, and may not even be necessary" (Sainsbury 2004: 87).
The Buddha searched for truth.
His response didn't shake my belief in the Nixon tale's basic truth, but he gave me a new context for its embellishments.
