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Truth as Faithfulness
An issue still remains to be resolved. I have allowed that in formulating a statement about some matter one has to interpret the relevant phenomena and it is possible that no one interpretation is the ‘correct...
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The Linguistic Conception of Truth
The dust raised by the hundred-year battle amongst analytic philosophers about their theories of truth has obscured a remarkable fact: almost everyone engaged in these debates agreed on what the philosophical ...
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Truth in Action
The observations in §3.6 suggest that an adequate conception of truth will ground it in the domain of actions. Since the concept of action is intrinsically normative, that might enable us to explain how truth ...
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The Genesis of Representations
It is never easy to liberate thinking from the mind-closing assumptions of prevailing orthodoxies. Yet thinking expands when radical alternatives are explored. That is why it is salutary to be reminded that th...
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The Truth of Statements
Not only are assertions — speech-acts of statement-making — appraised for their truth, so also are the statements made. Indeed, the word “true” is used more often in connection with statements than with the sp...
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Introduction: Truth in Trouble
Truth is in trouble. A deep and pervasive disillusion with the very concept now pervades Western culture. Of course, the words “truth” and “true” are still in regular use, but appeals to truth, whether made by...
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The Functions Truth Serves
From time to time, protests were voiced that the concept of truth is ‘richer’ than what minimalist and redundancy theories could deliver. These dissenters insisted that truth is a substantial concept; those theor...
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Acting Truly
Our investigation of autonomous life has justified a graduated concept of action applicable to the entire biological domain. And the logical structure of actions validates three related senses in which an acti...
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Acts of Assertion
We humans engage in many activities, some of which we appraise for truth. The linguistic practice of making statements is one of those. We regularly assert about a vast variety of matters that they are thus an...
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The Challenge of Sceptical Relativism
These days, it comes as a surprise to learn that the deep issue about truth which puzzled philosophers from Plato until the seventeenth century was not whether truth could be attained, but how false speech is pos...
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A process-based model for an interactive ontology
The paper proposes a process-based model for an ontology that encompasses the emergence of process systems generated by increasingly complex levels of organization. Starting with a division of processes into t...
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