Keeping truth in ontology
In previous articles, I've talked about dismantling and abandoning truth, arguing among other things that it's a reification/projection of the feeling of correctness in the doxastic realm with “the” correctness that has gained an independent existence, related to “reality” that serves the role of this mind-independent criterion of correctness for beliefs.
I'd like to make it clear here that I was speaking from a sort of meta-level. As explained in this article, anti-representationalism shouldn't constrain what we draw on our drawing board, anti-representationalism is an attitude towards the drawing board.
The concept of truth is useful, and therefore has a legitimate place on our drawing board. Moral and aesthetic properties are also useful, and therefore also have a legitimate place on our drawing board.
We don't need to dismantle these concepts on our drawing board, we need to dismantle them “in our soul” and thus gain a healthier attitude towards our drawing board, a more detached, lighter, more playful, more tolerant, more flexible attitude.
And in a way, normative concepts, such as alethic (“true”, “false”), moral and aesthetic concepts, are perhaps not very different from other concepts.
Take the concept of “solidity”. Isn't it perhaps a reification/projection of the feeling of resistance to penetration that we feel when we press down on an object with our body without managing to get through it? At least, that's what views such as embodied cognition support.
Whether embodied cognition is right or not, it wouldn't occur to anyone to stop drawing solidity on their drawing board (to adopt an anti-realism of solidity) if embodied cognition happened to be right.
Nor would it occur to anyone to adopt a non-cognitivism of solidity, like some people adopt a non-cognitivism of morality.
So I see no reason to adopt non-cognitivism, anti-realism or a related view within normative domains, even the alethic domain. These are useful languages/theories, and we can continue with truth-talk, morality-talk, objectivity-talk, etc. Where we need to make the dismantling is in our soul, in our attitude towards the drawing board, not in the drawing board.