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Giggalo_Joe t1_jbjndss wrote

Reply to comment by velezs in There is nothing to say about truth, admits Simon Blackburn. Here he presents the deflationist approach to truth – one that aims to put an end to the search for a theory of truth, which Blackburn now recognises is futile by IAI_Admin

Because even if you determine that the temperature of X is Y, you still can't prove that X exists beyond your mind.

If you accept that the object is there, regardless of the availability of proof, you can get as far as proving the object has a temperature. But you will never be able to determine if the object is hot or cold, because hot and cold are always subjective to what you're measuring it against.

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