Status Updates From Truth and the Past

Dummett's Dewey Lectures on logical analysis of statements about the past.

"Dying does not deprive anyone of the status either of an observer or of an informant: the dead remain members of the community - the community I have been referring to as 'we' - with whose collective and imperfectly shared knowledge I have benn concerned."

"We need a theory of meaning for our common language, not for an idiolect."

"There is a genuinely metaphysical disagreement about the effect that the past tense has upon the meaning of a sentence."