Sentence examples for truth apt from inspiring English sources

Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, for example, thinks that moral realism consists of endorsing just two claims: that moral judgments are truth apt (cognitivism) and that they are often true (success theory).

Simple moral sentences may be truth apt if all there is to having truth conditions is to meet minimal requirements of having a meaningful use, being in the right mood, and combining grammatically with other sentences to yield more complex embeddings.

Thus, most contemporary ways of drawing the distinction between moral realism and moral anti-realism begin with linguistic distinctions: It is first asked "Is moral discourse assertoric?" or "Are moral judgments truth apt?" It is not clear that starting with linguistic matters is substantively at odds with seeing the realism/anti-realism distinction as a metaphysical division.

Ayer denied that moral utterances were truth-apt.

Moral sentences are regarded as genuinely truth-apt.

It is argued that design representations are not means for the production of truth-apt assertions.

The ethical domain is necessarily less truth-apt, which is not to say that it is not truth-apt at all. 15.

"It is wrong (wrt to B) to kill the innocent" is a truth-apt expression.

8. Propositional processes could just as well be called rationally sensitive, inferential, or truth-apt processes.

Likewise, if something looks like a truth-apt expression (since on the surface it is in the indicative mood), if it behaves logically like a truth-apt expression (which again is what "X is good" undoubtedly does), if it is treated by the people whose use sustains its meaning as if it were truth-apt, then, absent compelling arguments to the contrary, it probably is truth-apt.

For a sentence to be true or false it must be semantically capable of truth and falsity or, as the current jargon has it, truth-apt.