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Our investigation of autonomous life has justified a graduated concept of action applicable to the entire biological domain. And the logical structure of actions validates three related senses in which an action can be true: it can succeed in doing what it aims to accomplish; the functional indications which render it appropriate can be reliable; and its dynamic presuppositions can be correct. Our analysis thus demonstrates how truth is grounded in the category of action.
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Campbell, R. (2011). Acting Truly. In: The Concept of Truth. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230307803_5
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