phenomenalism

Posted On March 25, 2024

• HN. Ch. 4: The idea that sentences bear truth or falsity.
• Ross offers a rather succinct definition of “phenomenalism” which I don’t think he intends to strictly identify with phenomenology, but he might have said that the only problem with phenomenology is that it leans tendentiously towards phenomenolism. [Pity he is not here to tell us.]
• Ross would not deny, I don’t think, that there is (phenomenal) truth in the statement “The sun rises”. But he rejects phenomenalism which, he says, tries to box up truth entirely in propositions like “The sun rises.” There is more to truth than the truth-values of propositions.