Truth value

The Correspondence Theory of Truth can be traced back to early Greek philosophers. Aristotle defined Truth as: “To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true.” While the theory has undergone countless revisions, it still maintains that the determining factor in Truth is whether or not a premise accurately describes reality. For example, we may say Heliocentrism is true and that we can say…

perhaps the intrinsic value of truth is romanticized. This is not to say that falsehood automatically has more power than the truth; simply that, in a given context, perhaps, the sole knowledge of the truth would fail to convert an obstinate and cruel audience to righteousness. In such a situation, the power of truth’s possessors eclipses the intrinsic power of the truth to maintain morality and to eradicate evil falsehoods. These problems surrounding the effectiveness of truth in this regard…

model. Carr proposes that there exists within historical studies the need for interpretation, and that there is no such thing as a universalized “truth” or “fact”. This is evocative of the Postmodernist phenomenon to critique and rethink approaches to history, which I will discuss later in this paper. Elton, on the other hand, emphasizes the universal “truth” within historical studies. He insists that there is no such thing as “subjectivity”, and all facts within historical sources are indeed…

Truth means absolute. It is the opposite of fake. When you want to know if Santa's real you always ask your parents, because you trust them. Or at least I did.. Are you telling the truth? Do you pinky promise? As children we always wanted to know the truth, the real stuff. But now as we grow into adulthood the authenticity is a little scary. Truth is we will all have to grow up, we will have to pay water bills, buy groceries, get married, and be alone sometimes. That's the truth, it will happen.…

to be good. It follows that the property of a belief and/or the justification of it cannot make it true. Properties are determinants of the truth value. We therefore require an intrinsic connection to truth. If we accept that most intellectual virtues have truth as their ultimate end; then it follows that our disposition in arriving at true knowledge is truth-driven. Zagzebski defines knowledge as, “cognitive contact with reality arising out of acts of intellectual virtue.” Arriving to moral…

our own attitudes. Moral disagreement means a clash of different ideas and emotions. Ayer proves that moral statements are meaningless. Ayer first proposes that meaningful statements are either analytic or synthetic. A statement is analytic if its truth or falsity can be determined by the definition of the terms. For example, frozen water is ice. A synthetic statement should be verified by some degree of sense experiements.…

his claims: that there is no way to tell the entire truth, especially not without any personal additions, and that any value from history must be gained through effort. Though Becker’s arguments are intellectually sound, they contain an unhealthy amount of nihilism in their delivery, where facts are discredited without an effective exploration of the enlightenment they allow—the insight and personal freedom that comes with the individuality of truth. Becker’s denunciation of the popular…

the man in the grocery store compelled to take a young girl? Was he perhaps not trying to take me? What motivated that woman to stop what was happening? And this is what I wonder the most: what was God’s reason for sending an angel to save me? The truth that I come up with for these questions will be different from someone else with a different belief system. The reasons for my own actions will be different than someone else making the same decision. Before we judge someone based on one action…

Historical knowledge tends to objectivity, the absence of which can cast doubt on the fact that truth is available to historical knowledge. In the theory of knowledge, the subject and the object considered as two completely contradictory sides. True knowledge means the correspondence of the subject's knowledge about the object, while the object belongs to the material, physical world. However, the purpose of knowledge can be ideal - for example, in case of the history of thought, philosophy, or…

arises. That is, find an ultimate truth that gives meaning to your life. For much of the current thinking, however, it is a wild goose chase, for man would be unable to reach the truth. This is the starting point that has given rise to the thirteenth encyclical of John Paul II, which was published on 15 October. The Pope wants to step out of this cultural situation that has shaped a way of thinking according to which everything is subjective: the truth would be the result of…