Why Care about Nezahualcoyotl?: Veritism and Nahua Philosophy

In: Philosophy of the social sciences: an international journal = Philosophie des sciences sociales, Band 32, Heft 1, S. 71-91

Abstract

Sixteenth-century Nahua philosophy understands neltiliztli (truth) and tlamitilizli (wisdom, knowledge) nonsemantically in terms of a complex notion consisting of well-rootedness, alethia, authenticity, adeptness, moral righteousness, beauty, and balancedness. In so doing, it offers compelling a posteriori grounds for denying what Alvin Goldman calls veritism. Veritism defends the universality of correspondence (semantic) truth as well as the universal centrality of correspondence (semantic) truth to epistemology.