A Philosophical Conception of Propositional Modal Logic
... It is no good to argue that formal sentences such as ‘p’ are presupposed to have a meaning (just as ‘Snow is white’ already has a meaning), that our models are therefore defined for an interpreted language, and that they represent the truth conditions of already meaningful sentences. For there is not ...
... It is no good to argue that formal sentences such as ‘p’ are presupposed to have a meaning (just as ‘Snow is white’ already has a meaning), that our models are therefore defined for an interpreted language, and that they represent the truth conditions of already meaningful sentences. For there is not ...
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... in the moment of assertion. In a tellingly titled section Assertion as a Derivative Mode of Interpretation Heidegger lays out assertion as having three significations: (1) pointing out, (2) predication, and (3) communication. The first signification, of pointing out – what Heidegger terms the prima ...
... in the moment of assertion. In a tellingly titled section Assertion as a Derivative Mode of Interpretation Heidegger lays out assertion as having three significations: (1) pointing out, (2) predication, and (3) communication. The first signification, of pointing out – what Heidegger terms the prima ...
What if all truth is context-dependent?
... more general context in which a particular truth is false?), this notion has already assumed the possibility of such universal notions as quantification over contexts in order to establish the possibility of defining absolute truth in a world where there is no “outer context”. It is possible that th ...
... more general context in which a particular truth is false?), this notion has already assumed the possibility of such universal notions as quantification over contexts in order to establish the possibility of defining absolute truth in a world where there is no “outer context”. It is possible that th ...
MODELS OF POSSIBILISM AND TRIVIALISM
... a general view of logical consequence might not be neat enough. Something similar happens with the case of the internal logic of degenerate toposes. Logical notions, from truth values to zero-, first- and higherorder connectives can be defined in toposes. However, in degenerate toposes (categories i ...
... a general view of logical consequence might not be neat enough. Something similar happens with the case of the internal logic of degenerate toposes. Logical notions, from truth values to zero-, first- and higherorder connectives can be defined in toposes. However, in degenerate toposes (categories i ...
LANGUAGE AND TRUTH: A STUDY OF NIETZSCHE`S THEORY OF
... Nietzsche contrasts the survival will with another will which he termed as the will to truth. According to the belief of metaphysicians, an experience and the concepts resulting from that experience can represent the thing itself or being, in case the experience is carried out under the will to trut ...
... Nietzsche contrasts the survival will with another will which he termed as the will to truth. According to the belief of metaphysicians, an experience and the concepts resulting from that experience can represent the thing itself or being, in case the experience is carried out under the will to trut ...
philbasisdialethism
... of that is relevant to arriving at a correct judgement of the form “ is a proof of ’ or of the form ‘ is a disproof of ’ or of the form ‘ is neither a proof nor a disproof of ’” that is, for any such aspect , S would, after some time, be able to judge whether was as it ought to be, in or ...
... of that is relevant to arriving at a correct judgement of the form “ is a proof of ’ or of the form ‘ is a disproof of ’ or of the form ‘ is neither a proof nor a disproof of ’” that is, for any such aspect , S would, after some time, be able to judge whether was as it ought to be, in or ...
LANGUAGE AND TRUTH: A STUDY OF NIETZSCHE`S THEORY OF
... Nietzsche contrasts the survival will with another will which he termed as the will to truth. According to the belief of metaphysicians, an experience and the concepts resulting from that experience can represent the thing itself or being, in case the experience is carried out under the will to trut ...
... Nietzsche contrasts the survival will with another will which he termed as the will to truth. According to the belief of metaphysicians, an experience and the concepts resulting from that experience can represent the thing itself or being, in case the experience is carried out under the will to trut ...
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... infinitely many respects… The number of similarities one can find between any two objects is limited only by ingenuity and time” (Reason, Truth and History, 1981, pp. 64f). 3: Heidegger finds the view of truth as correctness particularly hopeless in views, like Husserl’s, which take what is primaril ...
... infinitely many respects… The number of similarities one can find between any two objects is limited only by ingenuity and time” (Reason, Truth and History, 1981, pp. 64f). 3: Heidegger finds the view of truth as correctness particularly hopeless in views, like Husserl’s, which take what is primaril ...
Common Sense - SemioticSigns.com
... reflection.” Many would agree when thinking of the U.S. today! But was it true in 1776? • (p. 23) “The nearer any government approaches to a republic the less business there is for a king.” • (p. 73) “…we are not insulting the world with our fleets and armies, nor ravaging the globe for plunder.” Wo ...
... reflection.” Many would agree when thinking of the U.S. today! But was it true in 1776? • (p. 23) “The nearer any government approaches to a republic the less business there is for a king.” • (p. 73) “…we are not insulting the world with our fleets and armies, nor ravaging the globe for plunder.” Wo ...
Realism, Antirealism, Irrealism, Quasi
... whether or not a statement, envisaged as uttered on a particular occasion, would express a truth is a function only of the content it would have on that occasion and the state of the world in relevant respects. The more basic kind of realism involves, I suggest, the assumption of a sort of mechanica ...
... whether or not a statement, envisaged as uttered on a particular occasion, would express a truth is a function only of the content it would have on that occasion and the state of the world in relevant respects. The more basic kind of realism involves, I suggest, the assumption of a sort of mechanica ...
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 ...
Minimal Epistemology: Beyond Terminal Philosophy to Truth
... Now consider a minimal epistemic principle which even the skeptic can accept: MinEp. Given two or more conflicting hypotheses of kind K, retain for further consideration only those that, so far as we can tell, have satisfied the logically necessary conditions for being true where their rivals in K ...
... Now consider a minimal epistemic principle which even the skeptic can accept: MinEp. Given two or more conflicting hypotheses of kind K, retain for further consideration only those that, so far as we can tell, have satisfied the logically necessary conditions for being true where their rivals in K ...
Positivism, Cerebralism and Voluntarism in William James
... James acknowledges the possibility of “a divine thinker with all-enveloping demands,” whose way of subordinating demands to each other would be the finally valid casuist scale. But his way is “hidden from us even were we sure of his existence,” so James’s religion of humanity preaches the need for t ...
... James acknowledges the possibility of “a divine thinker with all-enveloping demands,” whose way of subordinating demands to each other would be the finally valid casuist scale. But his way is “hidden from us even were we sure of his existence,” so James’s religion of humanity preaches the need for t ...
On the first episode of a television parody of the dominant style of
... effect of his own concept of truth-regimes. Thus he concludes that the “essential political problem for the intellectual [is] that of ascertaining the possibility of constituting a new politics of truth.”20 Foucault was here transposing Nietzsche into the context of the 20th century European science ...
... effect of his own concept of truth-regimes. Thus he concludes that the “essential political problem for the intellectual [is] that of ascertaining the possibility of constituting a new politics of truth.”20 Foucault was here transposing Nietzsche into the context of the 20th century European science ...
OBJECTIONS TO REALISM Introduction: There are a bewildering
... "Seeing as" is a kind of hybrid between seeing and seeing that. Like seeing that, seeing 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 ...
... "Seeing as" is a kind of hybrid between seeing and seeing that. Like seeing that, seeing 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 ...
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... Aristotle (On Interpretation 1:9) noted that the past is “fixed” in a way 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 n ...
... Aristotle (On Interpretation 1:9) noted that the past is “fixed” in a way 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 n ...
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 ...
A Call for Inclusion in the Pragmatic Justification of Democracy
... developed metaphysics of experience and to assume a vision of human flourishing within a community bounded by unquestioned ideals. His thick account of nature, humanity and community are too substantive for a pluralist democracy and undercut his supposed commitment to free inquiry. So let us not be ...
... developed metaphysics of experience and to assume a vision of human flourishing within a community bounded by unquestioned ideals. His thick account of nature, humanity and community are too substantive for a pluralist democracy and undercut his supposed commitment to free inquiry. So let us not be ...
1 Revisiting Veblen`s “The Theory of the Leisure Class
... are built according to a process called appropriation. Through this process, consumers learn how to connect goods to inner impulses in order to attend to their impulses. As stated by James (1890b), appropriation is not related to the essence of inner impulses. Appropriation is about how to connect i ...
... are built according to a process called appropriation. Through this process, consumers learn how to connect goods to inner impulses in order to attend to their impulses. As stated by James (1890b), appropriation is not related to the essence of inner impulses. Appropriation is about how to connect i ...
The Implications for the Principle of Bivalence of Accepting Truth as
... 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 forwarding contingent truths about reality should be up for revision- and not just by way of an opposing rational ...
... 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 forwarding contingent truths about reality should be up for revision- and not just by way of an opposing rational ...
PRAGMATISM, REALISM, AND RELIGION
... anti-realist interpretations of his account of truth as the “fourth misunderstanding” of pragmatism.4 What James rejected, rather, was the idea that “correspondence” names a mysterious and singular relation to absolute reality, of which our true beliefs and statements are merely passive copies or tr ...
... anti-realist interpretations of his account of truth as the “fourth misunderstanding” of pragmatism.4 What James rejected, rather, was the idea that “correspondence” names a mysterious and singular relation to absolute reality, of which our true beliefs and statements are merely passive copies or tr ...
Absolute Truth - Tom Parnelle.Com
... "None of that is true! We make our own reality!" If that's true, and we all create our own reality, then our statement of moral accountability is merely a figment of the relativist's imagination. If a relativist has a problem with a statement of absolute morality, the relativist should take the issu ...
... "None of that is true! We make our own reality!" If that's true, and we all create our own reality, then our statement of moral accountability is merely a figment of the relativist's imagination. If a relativist has a problem with a statement of absolute morality, the relativist should take the issu ...
Outline Truth and Lie
... is, I believe, that Nietzsche is ultimately not interested in (theories of) truth. This is not to say that Nietzsche is not acutely concerned with the role that the concept and rhetoric of truth has played within various cultures. Before beginning I should briefly digress to say a few words about an ...
... is, I believe, that Nietzsche is ultimately not interested in (theories of) truth. This is not to say that Nietzsche is not acutely concerned with the role that the concept and rhetoric of truth has played within various cultures. Before beginning I should briefly digress to say a few words about an ...
A Tension in Pragmatist and Neo
... a satisfactory resolution, one that would be consistent with both of these core emphases within the pragmatist tradition. I. The Pragmatic Maxim and Conceptual Content Pragmatism traces one of its most important origins to Peirce’s early formulation of the pragmatic maxim in his 1878 essay, “How to ...
... a satisfactory resolution, one that would be consistent with both of these core emphases within the pragmatist tradition. I. The Pragmatic Maxim and Conceptual Content Pragmatism traces one of its most important origins to Peirce’s early formulation of the pragmatic maxim in his 1878 essay, “How to ...
Anekantavada - Journal of Conscious Evolution
... as we desire it. I find it intriguing that one of the oldest fragments of the Christian Gospels that sits in a museum in Dublin, is a piece of parchment from the Gospel of John dating to the second Century AD. The fragment quotes Pontius Pilate as he confronts Jesus: “And Pilate asked: ‘What is Trut ...
... as we desire it. I find it intriguing that one of the oldest fragments of the Christian Gospels that sits in a museum in Dublin, is a piece of parchment from the Gospel of John dating to the second Century AD. The fragment quotes Pontius Pilate as he confronts Jesus: “And Pilate asked: ‘What is Trut ...