Exam 6: Truth

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

Wilfrid Sellers believed that there were basic beliefs.

A priori propositions are propositions that we can know to be true without having to observe the world.

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

Do you think that the pragmatic theory of truth is a theory of truth in the same way as the correspondence and coherence theories are theories of truth? Argue for your view.

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.

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

Searle argues that the word ____________________ was developed so that we could talk about what it is about the real world that makes a proposition true.

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

According to the ____ view of scientific truth,scientific theories are literally true or false.

What philosopher wrote the following: "The language and the history of the time the writer was living in is the context within which individual texts have to be interpreted."?

How many kinds of particles and forces are recognized in the standard theory of matter?

Gettier examples assume

Who said that we were out to "trap" nature?

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

The realist view of scientific truth is a version of the ____________________ theory of truth.

Bertrand Russell developed a

____________________ hold that truth adds nothing to our statements.

Who believed that the attempt to find one characterization of truth that covers every kind of truth was doomed to fail?

According to the ____________________ theory of truth a belief is (true) if it coheres with other beliefs that we regard as (true).