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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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Is mathematics truth? As in the sense of that which is manifest or possible in reality?
“You can’t have i apples”
As @Conifold points out you cannot even have
√2 apples.
I'd go further.
Can you have -2 apples ⅓ apples?
I'd say (from a certain pov) no.
All physics is based on measurement …
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Can true ever be false?
This is not philosophy but (the mess called) Python. Within Python there are two related reasons why this anomaly:
Loosely typed
True + True == 2 would not happen if bool was a proper type. In a stron …
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Is every sentence we write or utter either true or false?
Here's a bunch of zen koans
Take this one: Can the moon be stolen
And convert it to a pair of complementary predicates :
The moon can be stolen
The moon cannot be stolen
Which will you choo …
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Can axioms be false?
There are many levels of confusion in your question (and many answers).
Contingent vs Necessary
Dogs don't exist was true say a billion years in the past.
It will also be true somewhere between now an …
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What does the essence of anything matter, if its effect is the same?
I will deal with the initial Comp. Sci. starting of your sequence. The rest follows naturally.
How does the algorithm matter if the function the algorithm computes is the same?
Say we have: y = 2*x …
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The fact/truth distinction and self-deception
This could well be framed as a fact-truth dilemma:
Objectively: I know death is certain — fact. … Subjectively: I know death is impossible in the sense that I am dead is an unutterable utterance — a deeper truth.
And we know from dream experience that Oh my! This alligator is going to eat me up! …
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Is identity the consciousness or merely something emerging into consciousness by its close p...
One of the fundamental distinctions between eastern and western modes of philosophizing is that the former distinguishes consciousness from the content of consciousness.
By the (vanilla) western outlo …
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Ref request: Reality objective or subjective
What I am searching for runs something like
Objectivity is the mark of reality
The usual materialistic/physicalist justifications
Subjectivity is the only absolute truth
Berkeley? Desartes? …
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Ref request: Reality objective or subjective
Here are links I've found
What exactly do 'objective' and 'subjective' mean in contemporary philosophy?
Virmaior Meaning flips at Kant
Grappling contrasting defns
Interesting interplay of subjectiv …
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If philosophy is based on reason and rationality, then why is there so much disagreement?
It has been said man is a rational animal.
All my life I have tried to find evidence that could support this.
Bertrand Russell
While in the above, Russell takes aim at logic and the rational, he did …
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Limitation of calculation/mathematical reasoning in search for truth
Perhaps Schopenhauer can be elaborated:
Geometry stimulates thinking, while calculating (algebra) replaces it
From matheducators SE
As a counter weight to Schopenhauer and the math-SE version there' …
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