Speech Acts, Truth and Reality

Abstract

Our thesis is that in order to be, truth must be uttered; that in order to exist, true sentences must be either uttered by speakers or read by readers or written by writers. if not uttered, truth disappears, but it can reappear. the view that truth is independent of being expressed is rejected as supposing platonism, mentalism, or idealism. the opposite view probably mistakes truth for reality, in that it is obvious that reality exists quite independently from people and their language. truth is always communicated truth. in "ontological relativity" and in "philosophy of logic", quine seems to accept this view more than he does in "word and object". indications in favour of our point of view can be found in hacking and grice.