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SUMMARY:Nothing is True
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LOCATION:Storrs\, United States
DESCRIPTION:<p>The Virtual International Consortium of Truth Research (VICTR) presents: a talk by Will Gamester\, &ldquo\;Nothing is True&rdquo\;\, January 18 at 10:00am EST (15:00 UTC).&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Abstract: Alethic nihilism is the view that nothing is true.&nbsp\; At first encounter\, nihilism strikes most of us as clearly false\, silly\, anarchic\, dangerous and/or incoherent.&nbsp\; This talk has three parts.&nbsp\; In the first\, I give an argument for alethic nihilism.&nbsp\; In the second\, I defend nihilism from some obvious objections.&nbsp\; I argue that nihilism is not clearly false\, silly\, anarchic\, dangerous\, or incoherent.&nbsp\; Rather\, whether we should accept nihilism turns on whether we think there is any important function served by truth-talk that it could not serve if nothing is true.&nbsp\; In the third\, I argue that we can use truth-talk to serve an expressive function - as a device for semantic descent - even if nothing is true\, by treating truth-talk as a useful fiction.&nbsp\; If this expressive function exhausts the function of truth-talk\, as deflationists contend\, then we stand to gain something and lose nothing by accepting nihilism.&nbsp\; We thus end up with a conditional case for nihilism: deflationists about truth should be alethic nihilists.</p>\n<p>Please email VICTRgroup@gmail.com for the Zoom link.</p>
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