Yet Mr. Fish treats truth not as an objectively verifiable ahistorical object but as something that is wrestled over in the midst of daily life.
As an artist, Truman Capote treated truth as a metaphor he could hide behind, the better to expose himself in a world not exactly congenial to a Southern-born queen with a high voice who once said to a disapproving truck driver: "What are you looking at?
On a broader tack, he treats truth generally in a pragmatist spirit as whatever underlies the serviceability of our beliefs about the world the X-factor in them that contributes to our attaining our goals.This curt, dense summary of a single chapter should alert readers to what faces them.
In order to treat truth like other predicates, one will add the axiom ∀A(T[TA] ↔ TA) (where ∀A ranges over all sentences).
Its most radical form treats truth as a mere disjunction of the more specific modes of positive appraisal, with no uniform underlying commonality amongst those specific modes.
Many proponents of deflationist theories of truth have chosen to treat truth as a primitive notion and to axiomatize it, often using some version of the T-sentences as axioms.
Few commentators treat truth or belief as being by themselves valuable (though see Kvanvig 2003: ch. 1), but it is common to treat true belief as valuable, at least instrumentally.
Frege had also, by the time of publication of the Grundgesetze, formulated his distinction between sense and reference, and decided to treat truth-values as objects, and indeed as referents of sentences.
In response to this the Mādhyamika might want to make the point that it is at least sometimes advantageous to treat truths as if they had a more than conventional grounding, that is as if they were not just the product of agreement with commonly accepted practices and conventions.
She clarifies her position of faith noting, "I do not mean by faith the holding of correct views and unimpeachable opinions on mooted questions; nor to I understand it to be the ability to forge cast-iron formulas and dub them TRUTH…To me, faith means treating the truth as true" (VAJC, 193).
