TRUTH AND CONSEQUENCES, Dewey firstly explained why he believes both the realist (correspondence) and the idealist (consistency ) accounts of truth face serious difficulties. Secondly, Dewey proposes a definition of truth references to consequences
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In this section, Dewey explained why the realist (correspondence) and the idealist (consistency or coherence) accounts of truth face serious difficulties. Firstly, Dewey points out that The difficulty with the consistency notion stands out in its very statement. A cognitive presentation means that the presentation is concerned with something beyond itself; the proposition is about something, not about itself. This something becomes the measure of its truth. Material truth means that the consistent …show more content…
First, every proposition (so far as genuinely intellectual in quality, not mere dogmatic prejudice or memorandum for further guidance) is a hypothesis concerning some state of affairs; that it is of its nature to be doubtful, not assured, of truth. Truth can exist only in the testing of the claim, in making good through the subsequent acts it prescribes. The pragmatic theory thus claims faithfully to represent the spirit that is the method of science
Second, propositions get a future outlook and reference. The pragmatist claims that since every proposition is a hypothesis referring to an inquiry still to be undertaken (a proposal in short) its truth is a matter of its career, of its history: that it becomes or is made true (or false) in process of fulfilling or frustrating in use its own proposal. The point of a proposition is to take something past, something done, in its bearings upon the future consequences which making the proposition helps us to …show more content…
When the final result may be modified by viewing some of the antecedent factors from the standpoint of a future result, we have precisely the state of affairs in which there are judgments or propositions. The worth of proposition comes from the implementation process. when the truth is itself a truth ,its means that it presents a theory, a hypothesis which, having reference to specific consequences, is to be tested and is to be made true (or false) by producing those consequences. Therefore, Truth references to consequences.
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As one of the presentation of pragmatism, Dewey claim that truth references to consequences. All statements or propositions are provisional or hypothetical, and all those are submitted to experimental test. Truth can exist only in the testing of the claim, in making good through the subsequent acts it
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In this section, Dewey explained why the realist (correspondence) and the idealist (consistency or coherence) accounts of truth face serious difficulties. Firstly, Dewey points out that The difficulty with the consistency notion stands out in its very statement. A cognitive presentation means that the presentation is concerned with something beyond itself; the proposition is about something, not about itself. This something becomes the measure of its truth. Material truth means that the consistent …show more content…
First, every proposition (so far as genuinely intellectual in quality, not mere dogmatic prejudice or memorandum for further guidance) is a hypothesis concerning some state of affairs; that it is of its nature to be doubtful, not assured, of truth. Truth can exist only in the testing of the claim, in making good through the subsequent acts it prescribes. The pragmatic theory thus claims faithfully to represent the spirit that is the method of science
Second, propositions get a future outlook and reference. The pragmatist claims that since every proposition is a hypothesis referring to an inquiry still to be undertaken (a proposal in short) its truth is a matter of its career, of its history: that it becomes or is made true (or false) in process of fulfilling or frustrating in use its own proposal. The point of a proposition is to take something past, something done, in its bearings upon the future consequences which making the proposition helps us to …show more content…
When the final result may be modified by viewing some of the antecedent factors from the standpoint of a future result, we have precisely the state of affairs in which there are judgments or propositions. The worth of proposition comes from the implementation process. when the truth is itself a truth ,its means that it presents a theory, a hypothesis which, having reference to specific consequences, is to be tested and is to be made true (or false) by producing those consequences. Therefore, Truth references to consequences.
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As one of the presentation of pragmatism, Dewey claim that truth references to consequences. All statements or propositions are provisional or hypothetical, and all those are submitted to experimental test. Truth can exist only in the testing of the claim, in making good through the subsequent acts it