- logic - What is the difference between Fact and Truth? - Philosophy . . .
• Chocolate is good = Truth, not fact • I love my mom = Truth, not fact • God exists = Truth, not fact Many things exist in truth (according to an observer), and not fact Truths need an observer to exist Facts stand independent of an observer, wether we like it or not • The sun exists = fact • The earth orbits the sun = fact
- truth - What is opinion? - Philosophy Stack Exchange
Social equality is not an accepted fact as multiple studies of social inequality would attest What might be accepted, and far from universally, is that social equality is desirable, but that is a social value and values generally can be neither true nor false, let alone be facts
- How Exactly Do You Define Truth? - Philosophy Stack Exchange
Deflationary theories of Truth: Deflationism about truth, what is often simply called “deflationism”, is really not so much a theory of truth in the traditional sense, as it is a different, newer sort of approach to the topic Traditional theories of truth are part of a philosophical debate about the nature of a supposed property of truth
- Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem: How can truth go deeper than proof?
First, truth is defined as a state where a statement is demonstrated (“proven”) to be in accordance with the axioms, i e truth is established by proof Then however, truth is claimed to exist even if a statement cannot be proved true given the current set of axioms, suggesting that the knowledge that some statement is true can be reached
- Does truth exist without proof? - Philosophy Stack Exchange
Truth-value realism is the view that every well-formed mathematical statement has a unique and objective truth-value that is independent of whether it can be known by us and whether it follows logically from our current mathematical theories
- Can truth exist without language? - Philosophy Stack Exchange
In such context, truth and falsehood can be conceptualized as two collections of judgments Truth comprises those judgments that maintain logical consistency, independent of linguistic expression For simplicity, think of two bags: Truth, holding rules that are logically consistent between them; e g 1) I like to eat bugs, 2) eating bugs feels
- truth - What is the difference between not true and false . . .
Same idea There is also another dimension to the difference between true and false The classical logic assumes for simplicity that that those are the only truth values that truth-apt expressions might take, this is called bivalence, often confused with the law of excluded middle Multivalued logics remove this assumption
- What is the basis for Kants misquote If the truth shall kill them . . .
"The moral principle, “it is a duty to tell the truth” would, if taken unconditionally and singly, make any society impossible We have proof of this in the very direct consequences drawn from this principle by a German philosopher [Kant], who goes so far as to maintain that it would be a crime to lie to a murderer who asked us whether a
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