philbasisdialethism
... conventions at the outset. “P is verifiable” means it is possible that P be verified. What is the strength of this possibility? In a sense, it is clearly possible to verify “Cows fly,” because we would be able to recognize flying cows as verifiers for the sentence. However, in another sense, it is n ...
... conventions at the outset. “P is verifiable” means it is possible that P be verified. What is the strength of this possibility? In a sense, it is clearly possible to verify “Cows fly,” because we would be able to recognize flying cows as verifiers for the sentence. However, in another sense, it is n ...
SI Hayakawa, Charles Sanders Peirce and the Scientific Method
... larger social life of the human community. In Peirce’s words: “The social impulse is against it… Unless we make ourselves hermits, we shall necessarily influence each other’s opinions; so that the problem becomes how to fix belief, not in the individual merely, but in the community” (CP, vol.5, par. ...
... larger social life of the human community. In Peirce’s words: “The social impulse is against it… Unless we make ourselves hermits, we shall necessarily influence each other’s opinions; so that the problem becomes how to fix belief, not in the individual merely, but in the community” (CP, vol.5, par. ...
Truth, Value and Epistemic Expressivism
... In other words: it is prima facie good to believe all and only the truth on any question that could come to hand. Note that (TG) doesn’t say that it is good for the propositions that I actually consider to be true. Rather, the point is that it is good, relative to the set of propositions I am able t ...
... In other words: it is prima facie good to believe all and only the truth on any question that could come to hand. Note that (TG) doesn’t say that it is good for the propositions that I actually consider to be true. Rather, the point is that it is good, relative to the set of propositions I am able t ...
The Importance of Being Earnest: Scepticism and the Limits of
... to absolute or Cartesian scepticism, there can be no doubts regarding Peirce’s rejection. One only needs to recall that, for Descartes, the hyperbolic doubt is a means to clear the ground for static foundations of a new “dogmatism”, a vital element in the internal monologue of the single mind and an ...
... to absolute or Cartesian scepticism, there can be no doubts regarding Peirce’s rejection. One only needs to recall that, for Descartes, the hyperbolic doubt is a means to clear the ground for static foundations of a new “dogmatism”, a vital element in the internal monologue of the single mind and an ...
Realism, Antirealism, Irrealism, Quasi
... think of as realism about the mental. Dummett, it should be emphasized, has never been under any illusions about this6and would be content to add, I think, that realism must be a view about what makes for the truth of statements when they are literally and nonreductively construed. But a more seriou ...
... think of as realism about the mental. Dummett, it should be emphasized, has never been under any illusions about this6and would be content to add, I think, that realism must be a view about what makes for the truth of statements when they are literally and nonreductively construed. But a more seriou ...
fiBeauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all
... about to wither. At times when beauty is at its greatest, death is just around the corner, so if you want to live well, you must also know to die. "Ars moriendi", the art of dying, was known in the Middle Ages. Gerd Kanz is not far away from it. As a 28-year-old, he once mentioned that you spend you ...
... about to wither. At times when beauty is at its greatest, death is just around the corner, so if you want to live well, you must also know to die. "Ars moriendi", the art of dying, was known in the Middle Ages. Gerd Kanz is not far away from it. As a 28-year-old, he once mentioned that you spend you ...
http://pine.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp/member/kaufmann/ Draft
... in which the future is not. Whatever has been, cannot (now) have been otherwise. Consequently, any statement about past facts is unequivocally true or false, regardless of whether its truth value is known or not. The same is not the case with statements about the future. At any time, multiple future ...
... in which the future is not. Whatever has been, cannot (now) have been otherwise. Consequently, any statement about past facts is unequivocally true or false, regardless of whether its truth value is known or not. The same is not the case with statements about the future. At any time, multiple future ...
Handout
... traditional definition of truth (accepted by philosophers as disparate as Aristotle, the medievals, Descartes, and Kant) is the agreement, or correspondence, of an idea with its object. Of course, everything depends on what this “agreement”, or “correspondence” (“adaequatio” in Latin), consists in. ...
... traditional definition of truth (accepted by philosophers as disparate as Aristotle, the medievals, Descartes, and Kant) is the agreement, or correspondence, of an idea with its object. Of course, everything depends on what this “agreement”, or “correspondence” (“adaequatio” in Latin), consists in. ...
On the first episode of a television parody of the dominant style of
... telling itself, he may or may not be telling the truth.”19 For truth-telling remains a problem, a problem set by the terms of any regime in which truth can be told. But he does strain mightily, within the terms of his own problematic, to prevent the paralyzing effect of his own concept of truth-regi ...
... telling itself, he may or may not be telling the truth.”19 For truth-telling remains a problem, a problem set by the terms of any regime in which truth can be told. But he does strain mightily, within the terms of his own problematic, to prevent the paralyzing effect of his own concept of truth-regi ...
OBJECTIONS TO REALISM Introduction: There are a bewildering
... as clearly involves something judgment-like. But one can see a drawing as a picture of Lincoln without believing that it is a picture of Lincoln. The classic example discussed to illustrate this notion of seeing, one invoked by Kuhn himself (p.113), is Wittgenstein's famous duck/rabbit drawing. The ...
... as clearly involves something judgment-like. But one can see a drawing as a picture of Lincoln without believing that it is a picture of Lincoln. The classic example discussed to illustrate this notion of seeing, one invoked by Kuhn himself (p.113), is Wittgenstein's famous duck/rabbit drawing. The ...
Dummett`s Truth Matjaž Potrč Dummett`s approach to truth will be
... language during my studies in Paris. The book was read by a linguist, as I remember. I later wrote my PhD on the problem of reference, starting with the distinction of sense and reference in Frege, then comparing it to elaborations by Russell and Strawson. But Dummett was not particularly important ...
... language during my studies in Paris. The book was read by a linguist, as I remember. I later wrote my PhD on the problem of reference, starting with the distinction of sense and reference in Frege, then comparing it to elaborations by Russell and Strawson. But Dummett was not particularly important ...
Pragmatism Lite - NYU Philosophy
... beliefs. After all, he argued, any case that we might make for one of those methods over another would presuppose the integrity of some method, about which a similar question would then arise. Eventually, it looks as though we will reach a point at which all we can say is: This is simply what we do ...
... beliefs. After all, he argued, any case that we might make for one of those methods over another would presuppose the integrity of some method, about which a similar question would then arise. Eventually, it looks as though we will reach a point at which all we can say is: This is simply what we do ...
Ethics of terminology
... defined in his “maxim of pragmatism”: “In order to ascertain the meaning of an intellectual conception one should consider what practical consequences might conceivably result by necessity from the truth of that conception; and the sum of these consequences will constitute the entire meaning of the ...
... defined in his “maxim of pragmatism”: “In order to ascertain the meaning of an intellectual conception one should consider what practical consequences might conceivably result by necessity from the truth of that conception; and the sum of these consequences will constitute the entire meaning of the ...
The Implications for the Principle of Bivalence of Accepting Truth as
... lost this objective of truth being established by way of verification- or knowability. It is, of course, true that philosophy does its work differently to science, and it may therefore be argued that metaphysics should not be subject to the same constraints as placed on science, but surely forwardin ...
... lost this objective of truth being established by way of verification- or knowability. It is, of course, true that philosophy does its work differently to science, and it may therefore be argued that metaphysics should not be subject to the same constraints as placed on science, but surely forwardin ...
Nicholas Rescher University of Pittsburgh “Peirce`s Epistemic
... this can now be construed not as a matter of a historically evolved instinct for creating truth-approximating hypotheses, but rather as a historically developed methodology for guiding the search for efficiently data-accommodating hypotheses. Such an approach envisages a transformation from an insti ...
... this can now be construed not as a matter of a historically evolved instinct for creating truth-approximating hypotheses, but rather as a historically developed methodology for guiding the search for efficiently data-accommodating hypotheses. Such an approach envisages a transformation from an insti ...
Kripke, A Priori Knowledge, Necessity and Contingency
... Phosphorus = the star right there in the evening sky. The star right there in the morning sky = the star right there in the evening sky. Hesperus = Phosphorus ...
... Phosphorus = the star right there in the evening sky. The star right there in the morning sky = the star right there in the evening sky. Hesperus = Phosphorus ...
Absolute Truth - Tom Parnelle.Com
... point it out to them, they may respond in anger, "Truth is relative! There's no right and there's no wrong! We should be able to do whatever we want!" If that is a true statement and there is no right and there is no wrong, and everyone should be able to do whatever they want, then why have they be ...
... point it out to them, they may respond in anger, "Truth is relative! There's no right and there's no wrong! We should be able to do whatever we want!" If that is a true statement and there is no right and there is no wrong, and everyone should be able to do whatever they want, then why have they be ...
The Journey PPT Notes
... – If something is real, we can never know – Even if we can know, can’t communicate it Can such a personal philosophy be grounded in experience? How? Could love be the answer to such empty experience? Must one always be critical to move closer to Truth? Can we learn any wisdom from children? ...
... – If something is real, we can never know – Even if we can know, can’t communicate it Can such a personal philosophy be grounded in experience? How? Could love be the answer to such empty experience? Must one always be critical to move closer to Truth? Can we learn any wisdom from children? ...
New Pragmatism
... James: “‘The true’ [. . .] is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving. [. . .] [T]he true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief and good, too, for definite, assignable reasons” (James, Pragmat ...
... James: “‘The true’ [. . .] is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving. [. . .] [T]he true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief and good, too, for definite, assignable reasons” (James, Pragmat ...
Outline Truth and Lie
... Before beginning I should briefly digress to say a few words about an alternative, cognitivist approach taken, for instance most recently, by John Wilcox and Richard Schacht. [see below] According to this approach Nietzsche's contradictory remarks about truth can, to some degree, be reconciled by di ...
... Before beginning I should briefly digress to say a few words about an alternative, cognitivist approach taken, for instance most recently, by John Wilcox and Richard Schacht. [see below] According to this approach Nietzsche's contradictory remarks about truth can, to some degree, be reconciled by di ...
Anekantavada - Journal of Conscious Evolution
... “My Experiments with Truth”. In the introduction he states: “I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I seek for him. I am prepared to sacrifice things dearest to me in pursuit of this quest, even if the sacrifice demands my very life.” Western philosophers view truth in different ...
... “My Experiments with Truth”. In the introduction he states: “I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I seek for him. I am prepared to sacrifice things dearest to me in pursuit of this quest, even if the sacrifice demands my very life.” Western philosophers view truth in different ...
Diapositive 1
... truth in things (ontological truth). Following this, he wrote an elegant re-statement of Aristotle's view in his Summa Teologicae : Veritas est adæquatio intellectus et rei. Truth is the conformity of the intellect to the things. Aquinas also said that real things participate in the act of being of ...
... truth in things (ontological truth). Following this, he wrote an elegant re-statement of Aristotle's view in his Summa Teologicae : Veritas est adæquatio intellectus et rei. Truth is the conformity of the intellect to the things. Aquinas also said that real things participate in the act of being of ...
Belief, Truth, & Knowledge
... Back to: Belief, Knowledge and Truth • We believe that humans have the ability to form their conscience according to moral principles of right and wrong, which will then lead them to ...
... Back to: Belief, Knowledge and Truth • We believe that humans have the ability to form their conscience according to moral principles of right and wrong, which will then lead them to ...
Correspondence, Coherence, and Pragmatic Theories of Truth
... world of mere matter, there would be no room for falsehood in such a world, and although it ...
... world of mere matter, there would be no room for falsehood in such a world, and although it ...
The Essentials of Pragmatism
... capable of determinate scientific investigation; 2) it conforms to our common sense understanding of things; 3) it offers an alternative to traditional metaphysics, extracting whatever was worthwhile in the old doctrines. -through an imaginary dialogue, P further elaborates this doctrine... ...
... capable of determinate scientific investigation; 2) it conforms to our common sense understanding of things; 3) it offers an alternative to traditional metaphysics, extracting whatever was worthwhile in the old doctrines. -through an imaginary dialogue, P further elaborates this doctrine... ...