Analysis 68 (4):303-309 (
2008)
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Abstract
Anti-realists typically contend that truth is
epistemically constrained. Truth, they say, cannot outstrip our
capacity to know. Some anti-realists are also willing to make a
further claim: if truth is epistemically constrained, classical
logic is to be given up in favour of intuitionistic logic. Here we
shall be concerned with one argument in support of this
thesis - Crispin Wright's Basic Revisionary Argument, first
presented in his Truth and Objectivity. We argue that the reasoning involved in the argument, if correct, validates a parallel argument that
leads to conclusions that are unacceptable to classicists and
intuitionists alike.