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	Truth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Truth is a property, just as red is a property predicated of a barn in the sentence in "The barn is red." The task for such theories is to explain the nature of this property.
		The Indefinability theory of truth views the concept of truth along the same lines as a correspondence theorist, but it holds that truth cannot be defined in terms of simpler concepts.
		theories to the effect that although a truth may be established by reason, its contrary ought to be believed as true as a matter of faith.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Epistemic_theory_of_truth (2956 words)

	true (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Theories of truth which adopt the former view are called objectivist and those which adopt the latter view are called relativist.
		A viable, more sophisticated consensus theory of truth, a mixture of Peircean theory with speech-act theory and social theory, is that presented and defended by Jürgen Habermas, which sets out the universal pragmatic conditions of ideal consensus and responds to many objections to earlier versions of a pragmatic, consensus theory of truth.
		After this very brief discussion of theories of truth, we note that contemporary philosophers tend to favor either some revised correspondence theory, or the semantic conception of Tarski or some deflationary theory; but we just haven't discussed them in enough depth to be able to say that with any certainty.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /True.html (4789 words)

	Truth and the Pragmatic Theory of Learning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The fundamental disagreement is exposed when the pragmatist retorts that she is indeed concerned with the relationship between knowledge and truth and refuses to admit any conception of truth having origins independent from the theory of human knowledge.
		This "ideal truth" still remains within the realm of possible human knowledge, and hence is insufficiently remote and transcendent from the metaphysical realist’s perspective.
		The misuse of the notion of "truth" by rationalists is a primary example of an immense obstacle to human progress.
	www.vusst.hr /ENCYCLOPAEDIA/truth-pragmatic.htm (5094 words)

	Truth - Wikipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The original version of this bare-bones theory was called "the redundancy theory of truth", and it is due to F. Ramsey and Alfred Ayer, English philosophers who wrote their works in the 1920s and 1930s.
		Another epistemic theory was introduced by American philosophers, Charles Peirce (pronounced "purse") and William James, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
		After this very brief discussion of theories of truth, we note that contemporary philosophers tend to favor either some revised correspondence theory, some deflationary theory or the semantic theory; but we just haven’t discussed them in enough depth to be able to say that with any certainty.
	wikipedia.findthelinks.com /tr/Truth.html (4120 words)

	Truth, Prosentential Theory of [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		The correspondence theory claims that snow’s being white is necessary but not sufficient for the truth of ‘snow is white.’ In addition to snow’s being white, the proposition that snow is white must stand in a relation of correspondence to the fact that snow is white.
		Epistemic theories of truth always have epistemic operators (e.g., ‘justifiably believes that…,’ ‘warrantedly asserts that…’) of some sort on the right-hand side of their analyses of truth.
		Truth theories such as (CSP), (HP) and (IJC) have the implication that there could not be any true propositions “such that nothing that tells for or against their truth is cognitively [in]accessible to human beings, even in principle” (Alston, 1996, p.
	www.iep.utm.edu /t/truthpro.htm (6647 words)

	Truth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The study of truth itself is part of philosophical logic, and within philosophy it is of special interest to metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of language.
		Social constructivism holds that truth is constructed by social processes, and it represents the power struggles within a community.
		A second example is the performative theory of truth which holds that to say "Snow is white" is true is to perform the speech act of signalling one's agreement with the claim that snow is white (much like nodding one's head in agreement).
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/T/Truth.htm (2540 words)

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		More recently he has come to think that his epistemic theory of truth and the internal realism of which it was an element were misguided attempts to replace the unintelligible picture of metaphysical realism by a rival picture.
		Truth cannot be just something language-internal; it is a representational relation between language-users’ utterances and a largely non-linguistic reality, even though metaphysical attempts to describe this relation as correspondence (or as some epistemic surrogate) inevitably lead to trouble.
		His conception of truth can be described as pragmatist, although one should not consider pragmatism an independent “theory” of truth intended as a rival to correspondence, coherence and disquotational theories.
	www.pragmatism.org /dmap/putnam.doc (3341 words)

	Coherence, Certainty, and Epistemic Priority
		These are (1) the coherence theory of truth, (2) the coherence theory of concepts, and (3) the coherence theory of justification.
		A position of this kind seems to me to avoid Lewis's logical objection to the coherence theory of justification and thus to demonstrate that the issue between this theory and the thesis of epistemic priority must ultimately be decided on purely empirical grounds.
		It is of course difficult to formulate precise criteria for settling such an issue, but advocates of the coherence theory have commonly tried to defend their position by appealing to the actual practices of scientists and other rational men, and presumably these practices are relevant to the issue even if not absolutely decisive.
	www.ditext.com /firth/firth.html (2916 words)

	Truth and Meaning
		Davidson's statement that truth is one of our basic concepts is directed against attempts to define truth with recourse to epistemic notions like verification under ideal conditions.
		There is a gap betweeen a theory of truth and a theory of meaning: sameness of truth-value does not guarantee sameness of meaning.
		Knowledge of a truth-theory for a language L that meets the empirical and the formal constraints is sufficient for the possession of the ability to understand utterances of L sentences.
	csli-publications.stanford.edu /understanding/node5.html (2290 words)

	Fitch's Paradox of Knowability
		Intuitively, that truth is to be understood in terms of the epistemic capacities of non-omniscient agents is at least a position in logical space.
		The ally of the view that all truths are knowable by somebody is forced absurdly to admit that every truth is known by somebody.
		Through the work of Michael Dummett a verificationist or epistemic theory of truth has come to be known as “semantic anti-realism,” the essential thesis of which is said to be KP (see, for instance, Dummett 1976).
	www.science.uva.nl /~seop/archives/spr2004/entries/fitch-paradox (5875 words)

	Knowledge, Truth, and Meaning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Pragmatic Theory of Truth is that true propositions are those that are most useful to believe and that are thus "fated to be ultimately agreed to by all who investigate".
		The Pragmatic Theory either underdetermines the truth of certain propositions, or it reduces to a variant of the social version of the Coherence Theory.
		The Behavioral Theory of Meaning is that the meaning of a term consists of the behaviors and dispositions associated with it.
	humanknowledge.net /Philosophy/Epistemology.html (633 words)

	Fitch's Paradox of Knowability
		Let K be the epistemic operator ‘it is known by someone at some time that.’ Let ◊ be the modal operator ‘it is possible that’.
		They argue that the intuitionistic consequences are not unacceptable to one interested in an epistemic theory of truth, that in fact those consequences are true and central to an epistemic theory of truth.
		When ◊ is epistemic possibility, and the knowability principle is treated as a necessary thesis that is known, the knowability principle entails that, necessarily, there are no undecided statements.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/fitch-paradox (6217 words)

	Lecture Notes, Lehrer's Theory of Knowledge, Chapter 7, Externalism and the Truth Connection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Externalist theories of knowledge are rivals to the kinds of foundationalism described in Chapters 3 (infalliblist foundationalism) and Chapter 4 (fallibilist foundationalism) and to the kinds of coherentism described in Chapters 5 (explanatory coherentism) and Chapter 6 (personal coherentism).
		According to Goldman, the problem with internalist theories of justification is that it is possible to meet their conditions of justification (being indubitable, self-evident, self-presenting, incorrigible) in a way that relies on a faulty belief-forming process.
		Trustworthiness is a "deontological" notion: it is an honorific signifying that one is worthy of epistemic praise.
	hume.ucdavis.edu /phi102/tkch8.htm (6591 words)

	Sami Pihlström: Putnam and Rorty on their Pragmatist Heritage
		Putnam says he finds "shocking" the idea that "truth" is "an empty notion" - an idea shared by such diverse thinkers as Rorty and Quine.[17] Instead, we need a "substantial" conception of truth as a normative property of our statements and world-views.
		Although Putnam has now given up the particular formulations of his epistemic "idealization" theory of truth he defended in the early 1980s, it is not entirely clear what kind of picture he has adopted instead.
		His appeal to normativity, to an irreducibly normative and "substantial" notion of truth, and to other such notions is pragmatically empty, Rorty seems to be saying - as empty as the skeptical challenges which traditional philosophers' substantial (correspondence) notions of truth were meant to meet in the first place.
	www.helsinki.fi /science/commens/papers/pragmatistheritage.html (5745 words)

	Pragmatic theory of truth
		The pragmatic theory of truth is a philosophical theory of truth.
		The theory states that something is true only if it is useful to believe.
		First, due originally to Bertrand Russell (1907) in a discussion of James's theory, is that pragmatism mixes up the notion of truth with epistemology.
	www.datamass.net /pr/pragmatic-theory-of-truth.html (608 words)

	In Defense of the Truth-Condition Theory of Meaning
		Contingent sentences depend for their truth value on facts about the world, and so are true at some possible worlds and false at others.
		But Truth-Condition theories of meaning are really theories of locutionary content, and do not purport to be theories of force; so it is no embarrassment to them that there are a few types of utterance that have forces but no contents.
		Other theories lack the latter virtue; they do not show how to get from a specification of a sentence’s “use” (or whatever) to a “means that” clause??and so those theories fall afoul of argument (C1)-(C5).
	www.unc.edu /~ujanel/TCSDEFexp.htm (5571 words)

	The Importance Of Critical Thinking Darrell Rowbottom (2-01)
		History is a graveyard of failed scientific theories, each of which was thought to have been 'verified' at the time (epistemically speaking), although that clearly was not the case.
		(Better ground in terms of truth-likeness of theories, rather than empirical adequacy thereof.) Since you claim to be a sceptic in the Humean tradition, you are surely aware of the problem of induction, and must therefore recognise that to posit natural regularities is just to beg the question.
		On an epistemic level (again, accepting a correspondence theory of truth), we might question whether the aim of science is truth.
	www.positiveatheism.org /mail/eml9195.htm (1128 words)

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		"A Defense of Künne's Non-Epistemic Theory of Truth", 6th Congress of the Austrian Society of Philosophy in Linz, Austria, 6/1-6/4/2000
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	www.infra.kth.se /~ledwig (1989 words)

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