- logic - What is the difference between Fact and Truth? - Philosophy . . .
• Chocolate is good = Truth, not fact • I love my mom = Truth, not fact • God exists = Truth, not fact Many things exist in truth (according to an observer), and not fact Truths need an observer to exist Facts stand independent of an observer, wether we like it or not • The sun exists = fact • The earth orbits the sun = fact
- How Exactly Do You Define Truth? - Philosophy Stack Exchange
Deflationary theories of Truth: Deflationism about truth, what is often simply called “deflationism”, is really not so much a theory of truth in the traditional sense, as it is a different, newer sort of approach to the topic Traditional theories of truth are part of a philosophical debate about the nature of a supposed property of truth
- Can truth exist without language? - Philosophy Stack Exchange
In such context, truth and falsehood can be conceptualized as two collections of judgments Truth comprises those judgments that maintain logical consistency, independent of linguistic expression For simplicity, think of two bags: Truth, holding rules that are logically consistent between them; e g 1) I like to eat bugs, 2) eating bugs feels
- logic - The absolute truth paradox - Philosophy Stack Exchange
In this way truth depends on the person establishing a truth Newton's laws, the principle of contradiction, any truth whatever —these are true only as long as Dasein is Before there was any Dasein, there was no truth; nor will there be any after Dasein is no more For in such a case truth as disclosedness, uncovering, and uncoveredness
- truth - Is to be able to describe something to be able to judge that it . . .
A sentence is truth apt if there is some context in which it could be uttered (with its present meaning) and express a true or false proposition Thus, to argue anymore over whether the sentence is true is merely resolved by accepting that it is true within a domain of discourse, that is, the sentence is truth-apt
- truth - How does Logic define true and false? - Philosophy Stack . . .
truth and falsity are values given to propositions these values, once determined, have a bearing on the truth values for other propositions the more general the concept the greater the difficuly in defining it what is certain is that meaningful propositions must be capable of being ascribed a truth value in a given context
- Is it possible to define Truth? - Philosophy Stack Exchange
As for philosophies which speak knowlegeably about truth, of the handful who come to mind; Aristotle, Plato and Spinoza, Spinoza's version of what constitutes the definition of truth may be the most compelling but is certainly the least understood To define truth, he maintained, is the same as understanding it
- truth - What is opinion? - Philosophy Stack Exchange
Social equality is not an accepted fact as multiple studies of social inequality would attest What might be accepted, and far from universally, is that social equality is desirable, but that is a social value and values generally can be neither true nor false, let alone be facts
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