Exam 5: The Search for Truth

If two people disagree about whether the statement "Life is meaningful" is true,their disagreement is factual,or empirical,in nature.

If you accept the "two world assumption" you are vulnerable to skepticism.

The German philosopher Jurgen Habermas disagrees with Foucault when Foucault claims that truth and knowledge are relative to discourse.

David Hume concluded his philosophical investigations into the nature of knowledge only after proving the most basic principles of our everyday knowledge.

What is truth and how do come to know it? Your essay should address the most common categories of truth (empirical and necessary), why both statements with philosophical content ("Life is meaningful")and presuppositions of knowledge ("The world exists")don't seem to fit into either category,and how rationalists and empiricists address truth.It should also discuss the correspondence,coherence and pragmatic theories of truth.

Scientists appeal not only to observed facts but also to