Actions, Products, and Truth-Bearers: A Critique of Twardowskian Accounts. Issue 3 (5th April 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bronzo, Silver
• Is Part Of: Canadian journal of philosophy. Volume 50:Issue 3(2020)
• Page Start: 297
• Page End: 312
• Publication Date: 2020-04-05
• Subjects: Propositions, -- truth-bearers, -- action/product distinction, -- mental acts, -- speech acts, -- truth, -- Twardowski, -- Moltmann; Philosophy -- Periodicals; 105
• DOI: 10.1017/can.2019.42
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0045-5091

Abstract

Abstract: Friederike Moltmann has recently proposed an account of truth-bearers that draws on Kazimierz Twardowski's action/product distinction. Her account is meant to provide a third way between the dominant view of primary truth-bearers as mind-independent entities and the recently revived construal of them as mental or linguistic acts. This paper argues that there is no room for Twardowskian accounts because they are based on a notion of "nonenduring product" that defies comprehension, and no need for them because the linguistic data that Twardowskians take to refute the act-theoretic approach can, in fact, be handled by that approach.