There is no truth philosophy

    • What is a theory of truth?

      (1) Our theory of truth must be such as to admit of its opposite, falsehood. A good many philosophers have failed adequately to satisfy this condition: they have constructed theories according to which all our thinking ought to have been true, and have then had the greatest difficulty in finding a place for falsehood.


    • What is the extension of the concept of truth?

      On the received view what are true the extension of the concept of truth are, paradigmatically, empirical truths about the world, the truths of science and mathematics. What makes those truths true the sense of the concept is that those propositions match up to the unique way that the world is.


    • Do natural scientific beliefs have truth on their side?

      One of its products is a set of natural scientific beliefs which are stable and coherent and, since they allow prediction, useful. In this sense, they are rigorous and certain in their coherence with one another we may say that they have ˝truth on their side ˛.



    • [PDF File]The Post-truth Crisis, the Value of Truth, and the ...

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      crisis. And it is the vivid realization that this can happen, that there is no external guarantee that it will not, that impels us to take note of this crisis, both as humans and as philosophers. I am not the first to recognize the significance of the post-truth crisis for philosophy. Harry Frankfurt describes the post-truth crisis as follows:


    • [PDF File]Nietzsche on Truth and Perspective: I Nietzsche makes an ...

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      Nietzsche ˇs revolutionary contribution to philosophy is to have overthrown the traditional concept of truth: the idea that truth is a unique, determinate and rationally mandatory ideal towards which to aspire, and to have located his philosophy within a realm in which there are (a s Foucault says) only ˝regimes of truth ˛5. On this view ...


    • The Intellectual Standard - Illinois Wesleyan University

      "The Truth Is Relative" Jaret I


    • Nietzsche's Critique of Truth - JSTOR

      Philosophy and Phenomenological Research Vol. LII, No. 1, March 1992 Nietzsche's Critique of Truth KEN GEMES Yale University 1. Introduction1 In several places Nietzsche calls into question the value of truth: The falseness of a judgment is for us not necessarily an objection to a judgment. [BGE 4] At some places he disdains the desire for truth:


    • [PDF File]Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth - University of Pittsburgh

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      gradual repudiation of the Wittgensteinian conception of philosophy as therapy, and a gradual return to systematic attempts to solve traditional problems. The trouble with the later Wittgenstein, Dummett says, is that he cannot "supply us with a foundation for future work in the philosophy of language or in philosophy in general."'


    • [PDF File]“What Is Truth?” by Bertrand Russell - Lander University

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      “Thus a belief is true when there is a corresponding fact, and is false when there is no corresponding fact.” Ideas of Interest from “Truth and Falsehood” 1. What are Russell’s three specifications for the nature of truth? 2. Explain the coherence theory of truth. Explain two objections to the coherence theory of truth. 3.


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