Exam 6: Truth

According to the theory of truth, a belief is true if it is, or can be, integrated within the framework of all the other beliefs that we already accept as true.

If you endorse rationalist epistemology you are committed to the pragmatist view of truth.

Vatsyayana accepted which view of truth?

The conceptual relativist claims that we cannot know the world independently of our .

What philosopher wrote: "The world is the totallity of facts, not of things."?

Do you believe that knowledge is justified true belief? Why, or why not? In answering this question you should draw on the work of both Gettier and Plato.

What philosopher argued that we should strive to develop a perfect language in which we could express our ideas with complete clarity?

A key problem with the correspondence theory of truth is that it assumes that we can determine if our beliefs correspond to any external reality.

Bertrand Russell endorsed the theory of truth.

What contemporary philosopher argues that truth is whatever has passed society's "procedures of justification"?

Which of the following philosophers proposed a version of the correspondence theory of truth?

No Eastern philosophers accept the pragmatic view of truth.

Which of the following logician and philosopher argues that truth is a property of sentences?

According to the theory of truth a statement is true if it is useful to believe.

What do facts need to have meaning, according to Carl L. Becker?

The view that truth is an agreement between a proposition and some facts in the world is the ____________________ theory of truth.

Who argued that the truth of an idea depends on the practical difference it makes?

Is it possible to give a literal reading of a text, untouched by interpretation? Justify your answer, and apply it to at least one practical issues, such as (a) whether judges "make law" in applying it, or (b) whether religious fundamentalism is internally coherent.

If I believe that what "truth" is is context­dependent I will likely endorse a

According to the theory of truth a belief is correct if it coheres with other beliefs that we regard ascorrect .