Questions tagged [facts]
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Can the fact/value distinction be drawn on any conception of facts, or only some of these?
The SEP article on facts goes over many conceptions of these things. Sec. 5 of the article on correspondence theories of truth lists the following objection at its end:
All facts, even the most ...
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States-of-affairs as zero-place analogues of properties and relations?
I've been going slow through the SEP article on intrinsic properties, and came across this intriguing gem:
(The locution ‘state of affairs’ is used differently by different philosophers. Here it is ...
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If the modern understanding of the categorical/hypothetical distinction is better than Kant's, does this undermine the categorical imperative?
In first-order logic (FOL), we have dedicated connectives for conditionals and disjunctions. Again in FOL, we can turn a conditional into a disjunction, though. Frege's logic has a judgment stroke, or ...
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Can facts be racist?
Can facts be racist? For example, is the fact that the median white family in the USA has a net worth of about 10 times more than the median black family in the USA, a racist fact? My view is that ...
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Are there conjunctive facts and disjunctive facts?
Facts are supposed to be the grounds for truths. However, consider a conjunctive statement like "Paris is in France and New York City is in the USA". What fact grounds that? Is there such a ...
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