ABSTRACT

Epistemologists usually make the point by saying that knowledge entails truth. Although a fact is not a truth, it is what makes a proposition true. Even if it is true that knowledge entails truth, this truth about knowledge and truth might not be clearly true. We do not create an objective truth's objectivity. It is made true by facts, not by our thinking about it—and the facts exist independently of our thinking about them. By this definition, it sounds as if it would be easy to determine whether a given proposition was objectively true. If something is really the case, it is something that is objectively true. So, if there really is no objective truth, the message is objectively true. But this makes the message false! For there is the objective truth that there is no objective truth! The state of affairs that obtains if the message is true is a fact that makes the message false.