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TRUTH, UNDERSTANDING, AND ELGIN’S CHALLENGE: A NEW CASE FOR VERITISM (pages 193-219)

Tiegue VIEIRA RODRIGUES, Alexandre ZIANI DE BORBA ABSTRACT: It is often said that truth is the fundamental value of epistemic norms. Values such as rationality and evidence are valuable insofar as they help to avoid false beliefs and achieve true ones. This view is generally called veritism. However, in a recent work, Catherine Elgin (2017) argued that veritism cannot account …

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