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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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Can falsehood be measured? If so, would it be continuous or discrete?
Given some measurement, if it is in reality 5 ft.
And one theory say's it should be 1 ft, and another theory says is should be 4.9 ft, we can compute the error of one theory and says it's +- 4, while …
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What does "contradictions trivialize truth" mean?
It trivializes truth because anything follows from the assumption, p and not p, in a trivial way. … It's not really that "truth" is trivialized. It is that proofs are trivialized.
To say that truth is trivialized, we need to add the further assumption that things we are able to prove, are true. …