Questions tagged [truth]
Theories of truth deal with questions such as: what are truths? what makes them true? what is the relation between truths and the things that makes them true? Not to be confused with "what is the truth", which is a completely different matter.
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Did any philosopher promote a “pure” pragmatic conception of truth?
William James often associated truth with usefulness (utility), but overall his conception of truth was not pure in this regard. It shares some elements of the correspondence and coherence theory. For ...
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Truth/actuality as an operator
Frege claimed that "it is true that" adds nothing to the actual meaning of an assertion, and following him along this line are prosentential theories of truth. However, I wonder if this is ...
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What does it mean for T-biconditionals to be derivable unrestrictedly?
I have been reading Leitgeb's What Theories of Truth Should be Like, and one of the desiderata for a theory of truth, he argues, is to have unrestricted derivable T-biconditionals. But I am having ...
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A Paradox for Anti-Realism?
Semantic Anti-Realists hold that a claim has a (constructive) proof if the claim is true. I wonder whether this position runs into a version of Yablo's supposedly non-circular version of the liar ...
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What's the difference between deflationism and correspondence theories of truth?
To my knowledge, the correspondence theory of truth posits that a proposition is true iff there are states of affairs that reflect what the proposition indicates. E.g. "Snow is white" is true iff snow ...
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Is this a problem with verisimilitude talk, many-valued-logic talk, or something/nothing else?
A perhaps naive characterization of verisimilitude is "closeness to truth," the proximity coming from the similarity. At least, the SEP article uses, "The number of planets is 9," ...
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"Truth" as a description of our cognition versus "truth" as a description of reality
In reading about the feud of foundationalism, infinitism and coherentism, there seems to be some arguments based on how cognition/reasoning works. However, an argument of the form (vaguely put by me) ...
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How does Yablo's paradox affect the theory of truth?
Question: What does Yablo's paradox tell us about what a theory of truth should look like?
I have been reading Leitgeb's What Theories of Truth Should be Like, and he discusses what a 'good' theory of ...
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Citation regarding a quote having to do with "truth" and what "an animal needs to believe"
I'm trying to run down a quote from (I think) Hegel which I read several years ago and have not been able to find since.
The gist of it is this...
"What an animal, for the sake of its own survival,...
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Language confusion; necessary/nomological/true in all worlds
I got confused by the way different people use language in the context of physicalism.
In particular, Kripke seems to equate "necessary truths" with something that is true in all possible worlds. Is ...
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Circularity between truth and meaning?
These two common claims are equally appealing:
(1) the meaning of a ( declarative) sentence consists in its truth conditions
(2) the truth of a sentence depends on its meaning
But are we moving ...
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The deception clause in lying
What if I am asked a question, and respond with an untruth I know is untrue, and I don't really care if I am believed, but definitely don't want to be found out (I don't want anyone to know Ive ...
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Is quasi-realism the inverse of quasi-fictionalism (or: would the concept of quasi-fictionalism make as much sense as that of quasi-realism)?
For reasons of partial linguistic symmetry, say "quasi-factualism" for "quasi-realism." Now, suppose that there is an initial truth-value multiset [T, T] and a truth-value set {T, ...
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Peirce cuts (mirrored) + demi-negation = demisets?
[Note: I found one essay, about Aristotle, that used the word "demiset," although at a glance it seemed like they might've been substituting this terminology for a counterpart to the subset/...
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What philosophy principles fit with "there is no reason, just position"?
One of the top authors in Asia, Ni Kuang, mentioned, "I don't usually discuss religion or politics in public, because there is no 'reasons' -- there is only 'position'", meaning if you are ...
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Are well formed "if, then" statements non-contigent truths?
Say I have a little unease with statements like "the world follows/obeys the law of non-contradiction, so x". But statements like "if the world obeys the lnc, then x", appear so ...
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Normative philosophy vs descriptive philosophy
I am making the question in simple terms to avoid logical ambiguity.
IS normative philosophy(what should be) a subset of descriptive philosophy (What is) ?
Is morality/ethics beauty/happiness is also ...
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What is the virtue of having true belief?
What is the virtue of having a true belief: where can I read about it?
I have two specific questions, before reading about it (and I don't even know what we would call it, wisdom?)
Is that virtue ...
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I can’t get what Nietzsche exactly referring to by (the later is in no respect whatever an argument in favor of the former)?
TRUTH”!—“The truth of Christianity was attested by the virtuous lives of the Christians, their firmness in suffering, their unshakable belief and above all by the spread and increase of the faith in ...
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Does deflationary truth collapse into a correspondence theory?
If you ask what justifies a deflationary account of truth, doesn’t that reveal an implicit isomorphism within the justification thus collapsing the account into a traditional correspondence theory?
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Plato's method for reaching the truth?
I wonder about Plato and, in particular, about his method of reaching the truth. One can suppose that the method is based on the practice of his dualistic philosophy, which would aim to free the soul ...
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The future in the deflationary theory of truth
How does the deflationary theory of truth, which defines true and false in the following straightforward way
The proposition that p is true iff p.
The proposition that p is false iff p is not true.
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What is the difference between Adorno's 'fragmentation' and post-modern art's fragmentation?
the most authentic art is modernist art which reflects in its own
fragmentation the fragmentation of society.
What is the difference between Adorno's 'fragmentation' and post-modern art's ...
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Has any consensualists written on Wittgenstein?
"This was our paradox: no course of action could be determined by a
rule, because any course of action can be made out to accord with the
rule" - Wittgenstein
This paradox is purported to call ...
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Strawson criticism of Austin theory of truth
I'm quoting a snippet of Strawson paper on truth.
[Austin] says that, when we declare a statement to be true, the relation between the statement and the world which our declaration "asserts to ...
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Does Habermas' 'performative contradiction' have more bite after Adorno gave up Marxism?
Does Habermas' 'performative contradiction' have more bite after Adorno gave up Marxism?
I took Habermas to be wrong because:
> The claim that seeking truth is socially necessary may be granted, ...
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A priori and a posteriori within an axiomatic framework?
I am not a philosopher, so please excuse my limited understanding of these basic philosophy concepts. I am having some difficulty understanding what truly constitutes an a priori statement/truth (I'm ...
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How do we define a fact?
Got into a discussion today with my Semiotics professor regarding this question and I still had questions in my head on the way home.
He was stuck on the notion that facts have just become things ...
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Textbook(s) on epistemology
I was following a course on Merleau-Ponty and realised from the first few readings that I knew too little about theories of truth to truly appreciate what I was reading. Are there any books I could ...
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Do any moral philosophers discuss 'validation'?
Do philosphers of ethics talk about validation?
The idea that my life or projects or person have some intrinsic value, specifically not just those that are innate to persons?
Maybe my tags seem a ...
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Does anti-realism say that what we can't know isn't true?
Has anyone, in the history of philosophy, ever objected to anti-realism that then our thoughts aren't about anything except our own minds and such that supposing we believe we have contacted a "shell" ...
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What are the implications of spreading stories that are fake solely because they support a opinion?
I see quite often on many social mediums, the radio, news, as well as advertisements everywhere statements that are untrue or are misleading that support certain opinions. I think it is completely ...
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Does Gödel’s findings boil down to part of classical mathematics (as opposed to computation) is flawed?
According to artificial intelligence researcher Joscha Bach, only classical mathematics is affected by Gödel’s incompleteness theorem however not computation where calculations are performed in a step-...
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What are the categories of exact truth?
Most apparent facts are irremediably vague. For instance: "The chair in this room is red" may appear at first glance to be a statement that is either true or false. But in fact the meanings ...
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Correspondence theory of truth and analyticity
The correspondence theory of truth states that truth is essentially correspondence to a fact or state of affairs. How does this theory handle analytic truths - that is, 'true by definition' type ...
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According to Meinong's theory, is it false that all circles are not square?
According to Meinong's theory, "square circles are circles" is a true statement.
Does it mean that "circles include square circles" is true, so is it false that all circles are not ...
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What is the nature of ultimate reality? How rise of AI is challenging the old notions?
From centuries debate is going on nature of ultimate reality. With "conscious" and "material" being two extremes and views with different composition of two lying between the ...
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How can we commute the alethic negation in the liar sentence?
Normally, "It is not true that F," equals, "It is true not that F," or even, "It is true that not F." I can't figure out how to carry this out with the way the truth ...
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Trivialism vs Alethic Nihlism
What are the similiarities and differences between the two theories (as well as arguments for and counterarguments against).
From what I know, trivialism states that everything is true (and I believe ...
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Alethic Nihlism
I read this article:
https://aeon.co/essays/on-the-advantages-of-believing-that-nothing-is-true
I just don't understand how someone can believe something is the case but is not true. It's like saying ...
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Does the question, "Does S correspond to a fact?" meaningfully exist even if "corresponds to a fact" is not the same as "is true"?
Or, then, do all questions involving the substitute for "is true" in some or another truth theory, exist as meaningful questions? So that any of the following is admissible on its own terms (...
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Certainty, or at least near-certainty, in philosophy
I love thinking about and discussing philosophy; I consider it an extremely important discipline.
But: In mathematics, many results have been discovered that are virtually certain to be true, ...
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Metaphysics and truth of propositions
Currently i'm reading about truth in metaphysics, but I'm getting stuck with the wording on the truth of propositions.
Are these pairs of propositions saying the same thing?
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Is it possible to quantify or even just suggest when someone is to blame for being tricked?
Is it possible to quantify or even just suggest when someone is to blame for being tricked? It is a common adage that gullible people are to blame for it, even if it is not exactly immoral to be ...
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If the Continuum's cardinality could physically change because of a physical manifestation of forcing
Suppose that the Continuum has a specific cardinality assigned to it when it exists "in" a physical universe. (This, or a similar-sounding supposition, occurs frequently enough in the ...
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Is a decision made before the rationalization?
Well, I was listening to a podcast in Spanish and a great scientist was saying that there are studies that are seeing that decision making is not as rational as we think it is. He says that the moment ...
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Can one be a nihilist?
From Wikipedia:
[Nihilism]... rejects general or fundamental aspects of human existence, such as objective truth, knowledge [...]
Rejecting something means to me, claiming that something is not true ...
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Levels of truth (is the liar paradox generated by equivocation?)
Strictly, Tarski's notion of truth levels, which is based on truth as a predicate (property), has it so that the liar sentence, "This sentence is false," by trying to attach a truth ...
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Philosophy of social motivations
There is a certain philosophy that social status seeking motivations stand in opposition to finding out the truth.
A social-status-motivated person will look first at status markers on arguments, ...
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Justification values
The concept of truth values is sometimes expressed in terms of "truth as an object vs. truth as a property." My in-a-slogan understanding of this alternative is "sentences being ...
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