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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.
		Strawson, 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).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Truth (2584 words)

	Truth [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		The competing theories are [iv] the Coherence Theory, and [v] the Pragmatic Theory.
		a theory of linguistic truth (for noncontingent propositions)?
		The principal deflationary theory is the Redundancy Theory advocated by Frege, Ramsey, and Horwich.
	www.iep.utm.edu /t/truth.htm (9250 words)

	THE SEMANTIC CONCEPTION OF TRUTH AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF SEMANTICS
		Semantics is a discipline which, speaking loosely, deals with certain relations between expressions of a language and the objects (or "states of affairs") "referred to" by those expressions.
		These semantic laws should not be identified with the related logical laws of contradiction and excluded middle; the latter belong to the sentential calculus, i.e., to the most elementary part of logic and do not involve the term "true" at all.
		Semantic notions are undoubtedly involved, to a larger or smaller degree, in psychology, sociology, and in practically all the humanities.
	www.crumpled.com /cp/classics/tarski.html (14153 words)

	Truth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.apawn.com /search.php?title=Truth (2496 words)

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		In both theories of truth there is a more or less intimate connection with the idea of the ultimate structure of the world, especially in the inter- pretation of correspondence as a structural isomorphism, and in the view of reality as a unified, coherent whole.
		In the _pragmatic theory of truth_ `true` is what is ultimately satisfying to believe, either because the expectations such a belief arouses are fulfilled, or because it contributes to the satisfactoriness of, and effectiveness in, the conduct of life.
		Theories of truth like the correspondence- and coherence- theories have been called "ontological theories of truth" (altho the coherence theory is in fact more `logical` than `onto- logical`).
	www.trinp.org /MNI/BoI/4/2/1.txt (1703 words)

	Truth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Truth is a concept of primary importance to philosophy, science, law, and religion.
		The study of truth is part of philosophical logic and epistemology.
		Tarski thought of his theory as a species of correspondence theory, in which the term on the right is assumed to correspond to the facts.
	www.free-download-soft.com /info/true.html (1703 words)

	20th WCP: In Spite of Davidson's Arguments for "The Folly of Trying to Define Truth," Truth Can Be Defined
		Moreover, according to pragmaticist epistemological theory of truth the terms "languages" and "sentences" in the above definition are replaced by the conceptions of the cognitive languages of mind and cognitions respectively.
		If Davidson abandoned the coherent theory of truth, as he concedes, and still retains the function of truth conditions in determining the truth and the meaning of our propositional beliefs, then the question is whether these truth conditions are themselves beliefs or not (Davidson, 1996:273, 1990:320).
		Truth conditions cannot be elements of external reality to which we do not have direct access, but they cannot be just any cognitive states because then we would be in a vicious circle of holism.
	www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/TKno/TKnoNesh.htm (4008 words)

	The Semantic Conception of Truth
		If we want to develop the theory of truth in a metalanguage which does not satisfy this condition, we must give up the idea of defining truth with the exclusive help of those terms which were indicated above (in Section 8).
		As regards the applicability of semantics to mathematical sciences and their methodology, i.e., to metamathematics, we are in a much more favorable position than in the case of empirical sciences.
		These results concern the mutual relations between the notion of truth and that of provability; establish new properties of the latter notion (which, as well known, is one of the basic notions of metamathematics); and throw some light on the fundamental problems of consistency and completeness.
	users.bestweb.net /~sowa/misc/tarski.htm (14065 words)

	Perceptual Bias (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Semantics is so impotant to philosophy that it constitutes one of the Theories of Truth used to validate knowledge.
		Note: This theory qualifies it’s relevance to only metaphysical propositions, because the other two main branches of philosophy, epistemology and ethics, are primarily concerned with the subject; therefore subtracting the subject from their propositions would be self contradictory.
		In addition we will use the “coherence theory of truth” by validating or dismissing dualistic concepts through their correlations or contradictions with other facts; and the “pragmatic theory of truth” by checking dualistic lines of reasoning for gaps and inconsistencies in their logical application.
	www.iserv.net /~merriman/percept.htm (8011 words)

	Notes on Free Will and Determinism - Prof. Norman Swartz
		The first turns on the notion of truth; the second on knowledge, in particular on the consequences of God's foreknowledge, if there is a God; and the third on the belief that every event in the universe has a cause.
		This is not 'backwards causation': the relation between an event and the truth of the proposition describing that event is not a causal relation whatever.
		It presupposes a theory which I think is, ultimately, unintelligible, namely an anti-Tarskian theory that propositions do not 'take their truth' from the way the world is, but rather 'impose' their truth on the world.
	www.sfu.ca /philosophy/swartz/freewill1.htm (8039 words)

	Table of contents for Doubt truth to be a liar
		Table of contents for Doubt truth to be a liar / Graham Priest.
		Theories of Truth 2.1 Introduction 2.2 The Deflationist Theory of Truth 2.3 The Semantic Theory of Truth 2.4 The Teleological Theory of Truth 2.5 The Pragmatist Theory of Truth 2.6 The Coherence Theory of Truth 2.7 The Correspondence Theory of Truth 2.8 Conclusion 3.
		Denial and Rejection 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Negation and Denial 6.3 Expressability 6.4 Denial and Paradox 6.5 Truth and Rejection 6.6 Rational Dilemmas 6.7 Game-theoretic Dilemmas 6.8 Objections 6.9 Conclusion PART III: RATIONALIT 7.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/ecip0516/2005020197.html (396 words)

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