No puzzles about truth for nonrealist cognitivism

Abstract Derek Parfit defended a metaethical theory which he calls nonrealist cognitivism. According to this theory, there are irreducibly normative truths that stand without ontological implications. A lot of literature has been dedicated to raising puzzles about the coherency of such a theory. The aim of this article is to solve a puzzle specifically concerning truth. Suikkanen's puzzle about truth argues that defenders of nonrealist cognitivism have no resources to make sense of the nature of normative truths, given that they supposedly do not have available to them the traditional theories of truth. We argue that not only is such reasoning based on errors, but also that bringing light to the intersection of truth and metaethics only further highlights the attractiveness of the theory.