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A Critical Review on Social-Practical Justification and Truth-Conduciveness Problem

Kiyong Suk 1

1서강대학교

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ABSTRACT

Professor Lee Byung-deok suggests a theory of social-practical justification that includes a deontological, internalistic, and coherent concept of justification, and argues that this theory can solve the well-known truth-conduciveness problem. In the process of solving this problem, he introduces the concept of objectivity beyond the dimension of intersubjectivity. I agree in principle with his social-practical justification theory, but I do not think it can solve the problem of truth-conduciveness in that there is no practical way to distinguish objective justification from intersubjective justification. In conclusion, I argue that the right way to solve the problem of truth-conduciveness without undermining the fundamental purpose of the social-practical justification is to reject the concept of truth-conduciveness, which is shadowed by the realistic concept of truth.

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