Commercial and therapeutic uses of language challenge the slightly constrained models of truth telling that have been derived from the usages of the hard and soft sciences. They also suggests some alternative, and fruitful, approaches to a variety of ancient and intractable problems.
Key words: Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, Truth, Meaning, Knowledge, Counselling, Synthetic a Priori
There is no final 'fact of the matter' here.
This should be clear from Davidson's need for a 'principle of charity'. (Unless he thought this was a 'principle' which we must observe - a condition of our own humanity.)
This has important consequences for any 'science' of psychology that includes the study of consciousness, or even intentionality.
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