- 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
- 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
- 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
- What is the philosophical difference between Reality and Truth?
The problem, however, is to determine what is real For instance, for Plato Truth describes Reality, but neither truth nor reality are equated, for him, with the physical material states of being that most people view as constitutive of reality A related but distinct theory is the semantic theory which holds that "truth" is a property of
- the nature of truth and atomic proposition truth values
So there are several types of truth: logical truth (valid within rules), correspondent truth (matches reality), coherent truth (consistent in a system), and pragmatic truth (works in practice) We can assign truth in logic by: Truth Tables, Semantic Models, Proof Trees, or Probabilistic Truth (Fuzzy Logic)
- truth - Can a true sentence be a lie? - Philosophy Stack Exchange
So now Bobby says the opposite of their beliefs (a lie), but at the same time says an objective truth There are other ways true statements can be used in deception, like omitting crucial information or using language ambiguity, but to me it feels that the meaning of "true statement" and "lie statement" would not apply for that
- truth - Is perspectivism a subtype of relativism? - Philosophy Stack . . .
Relativism in its naive form is that truth is merely relative, so perspectivism, which asserts that truth is relative to the perspective of the agent is one type of relativity of truth Another type of relativity is social constructivism, which in a naive formulation asserts that truth is relative to the society of agents who collaborate to
- 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
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