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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Can myths convey truths even if they are not literally true?
Myths are often seen as traditional stories about gods, heroes, or natural phenomena. While they are not necessarily factually accurate, many thinkers have suggested that myths can still express ...
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Does Tarskis conception require a difference between truth predicate and truth value in formal logic
So, I asked a similar question in maths, but from the answers I got, I figured it maybe is too philosophically loaded (I hope this is ok).
But still my main interest lies in the actual application of ...
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If truth is not a process in evolution, then why is the man who discovers it today called wise, and tomorrow, outdated? [closed]
Truth does not become consensus — it is reflected in it. And the more perfect the truth, the more imperfect its human translation will be.
— Felipe M. Muniz, The Quality of Truth
Throughout history, ...
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The gap between an assertion's being true and things being as they are asserted to be
As I was reading the SEP entry on insolubilia like the liar-sentence paradox, I ended up reading this intriguing claim:
Sometime between roughly 1330 and 1335, the English Benedictine Roger Swyneshed ...
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Truth value of a sentence giving permission?
"Visitors may help themselves to anything in the fridge." Does this statement have a truth value?
It is giving permission, but what if the permission is not mine to give? What if it is in ...
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Why does truth seem to lack compelling power? Why can we rarely convince anyone to change their mind?
You have surely noticed that it's very hard (sometimes it feels impossible) to convince anyone differently from what they already believe, and some conversations are constant loops ending in stalemate....
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Too logical to be true? [closed]
This is not a repetition of my last question; it's not about specific conditions, but about the cause for the non-transferability of φ as such.
However, the premises for the questions are the same, ...
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What about the "beat you to the punch" interpretation of the unfalsifiability theory of knowledge? [closed]
Consider this theory of knowledge: a statement is true if and only if it is unfalsifiable. Reason? If a statement cannot be falsified, and its unfalsifiability is enduring, then it must capture ...
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Under what conditions can truth values be transferred between reality and its simulation?
I am not asking whether we live in a simulation!
Rather, I am asking whether the transfer of truth values is justified under precisely this assumption.
(Please avoid comparisons with video games.)
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Did the ancients review the philosophical meaning of bs?
Harry Frankfurt,
Princeton University
We have no clear understanding of what bullshit is, why there is so
much of it, or what functions it serves. And we lack a conscientiously
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How can we attain ‘truth’ if all we can do is justification? [closed]
Take Napoleon for example, we are justified in believing he existed.
suppose I went back in time to check if it’s ‘true’ that he existed, the problem here is that this is technically also a ...
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How will you share a truth that changes world [closed]
Good day all of you! I am a philosophy student who has a question that has stuck on his mind. My questions are:
What do you think truth is about?
Can the truth ever change?"
And most ...
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On Trivial Systems
Context: I have been thinking about the idea of trivial theories for some quite some time now and would like to express some ideas about trivial systems of logic that I haven't really seen anywhere ...
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What did Russell say about Carnap's claim that the sentence "Caesar is a prime number" is meaningless?
What did Bertrand Russell have to say concerning Carnap's assertion that the sentence "Caesar is a prime number" is meaningless?
Thank you for providing the reference of any relevant ...
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How do you solve the epistemic problem of "recognizing the truth" under hard determinism?
If what we desire and do is not up to us, and we cannot will and act otherwise, because the previous state of the universe entirely determined the subsequent states, this also applies to what we think ...
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