ABSTRACT
In Truth and Truthfulness, Williams (2002: 3) asks whether the notions of ‘truth and truthfulness can be intellectually stabilised in such a way that what we understand about truth and our chances of arriving at it can be made to fit with our need for truthfulness’. Williams takes the view that the ideas of truth and truthfulness matter in that they are ‘significant in our lives’ (2002: 5). The word ‘significant’ is here central to Williams’ philosophical approach and to the scope of this chapter.
