Harold Pinter acknowledgement speech

[Chaerophon]

From the previous sentence...

The correspondent truth of the situation, the reality of the situation, is obscured by the self-righteous moral 'truth' that is sold to the people as complacency-inducing war-bait.

Note: truth vs. 'truth'.

A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.

This does not need to be taken as a 'hard' metaphysical/epistemological claim.

Let's not forget that he is a poet. His speech is very much concerned with the nature of context-dependent moral 'truth'. Contextual assertions of moral 'truth' may not pass the test of correspondence - knowledge of 'the good' may not be discernible 'as a matter of fact' - and yet such constructions do undoubtedly exist, and they do undoubtedly have real meaning for their adherents. If you object to the use of the word 'truth' to describe them, I suppose that I sympathize... I've taken enough courses with 'anal'ytic epistemology prof's to know that the use of 'truth' in such a way can get people's hackles up.

I take him to be talking about context-dependent moral 'truths' with this statement. Note that he discusses the interplay of these with 'reality' on a number of occasions.