Exam 6: Truth

Outline the two ways in which God and right acts might be related,according to the Euthyphro dialogue discussed in Chapter 1.If we believe that acts are right because God loves them,how do we know which acts are right acts? How might the problem of interpretation be relevant to the most obvious answer to this question?

John Searle believes that all true propositions are those

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

Which of the following philosophers accepted the coherence theory of truth?

Bertrand Russell endorsed the ____________________ theory of truth.

Rorty is a pragmatist about truth.

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

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.

A basic belief is one that does not need to be justified by other beliefs.

No Eastern philosophers accept the pragmatic view of truth.

There are only two major theories of truth.

Propositions that we cannot know unless we observe the world are called empirical,or ____________________ propositions.

What philosopher wrote: "A text is understood only if it is understood in a different way every time."?

A(n)____________________ belief is one that we immediately know is true without having to infer it from other belief.

Dharmakirti accepted a foundationalist view of truth.

C.G.Hempel rejected the coherentist view of truth.

Statements or sentences express the contents of our ____________________.

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

Martin Luther believed that there was only one true meaning of scripture.

The three theories of truth assume that truth is a(n)____________________ concept.