"It is true that" could be redundant because, strictly speaking, information is not a truth-bearer but already encapsulates truth as truthfulness.
Williams himself attempts to provide such a potential explanation, which if plausible will given the impossibility of recovering the actual history provide us with as much insight as we can reasonably hope for into how the notions of truth and truthfulness did in fact arise.
In this Williams argues, against such deniers of the possibility or importance of objective truth as the pragmatist Richard Rorty and the deconstructionist Jacques Derrida, that it is indispensable to any human society to accept both truth and truthfulness as values, and sincerity and accuracy as corresponding virtues.
None of them found close approximations for "truth" in the propositional sense in the cultures they studied, but all four said there were analogues for the terms associated with truth as "truthfulness" in the lexicons of the thinkers and traditions they worked with.
On the contrary, Williams argues, Nietzsche is on his side, not the deniers', because Nietzsche himself believes that, while a vindicatory history of the notions of truth and truthfulness certainly has to be a naturalistic one, that is not to say that such a history is impossible.
After 1999 when he was knighted he began to be affected by the cancer which eventually killed him, but was still able to bring out Truth and Truthfulness in 2002.
But then Lewis cannot use his convention of truthfulness and trust to underwrite a unique truth-condition for \(S\).
Thus, DTT may be satisfactory as theories of truth-ascriptions while being inadequate as theories of truthfulness.
Then there are the moral virtues – truthfulness, honesty, developing a sense of justice, that type of thing.
Authenticity is the key word in this language, because it implies truthfulness with no uncomfortable requirement for facts.
Links between news outlets and fact-checking sites, so that, for instance, whenever you read a story about Mr Kerry, you can click on his name to call up a history of his truthfulness summed up perhaps by PolitiFact's helpful Truth-O-Meter®, which rates claims on a six-level scale ranging from "true" to "pants on fire".Snazzy stuff, if it works.
