Volume 90, Issue 2, Spring 2016
Elizabeth Anscombe
Sarah Broadie
Pages 281-298
Practical Truth in Aristotle
An interpretation is offered of the Aristotelian concept of “practical truth” in the wake of Anscombe’s very interesting exegesis. Her own interpretation is considered and its merits noted, but a question is raised as to its plausibility as an account of what Aristotle himself intended in speaking of “truth that is practical” (he alētheia praktikē).