Truth & Generosity: How Truth Makes Language Possible

It doesn't matter whether you're conservative or liberal, religious or skeptical, the very fact you are able to understand the words you're reading right now-that we are all able to communicate with each other using language-means we must share a vast body of beliefs. While language may shape the way we think about the world to some small extent, it makes much more sense to say truth shapes language to a very large extent. That's the central argument of this book: Truth is the condition tha...