Concept
Truth
Overview
what is in accord with fact or reality
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In the original texts
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The other objection to this definition of truth is that it assumes the meaning of 'coherence' known, whereas, in fact, 'coherence' presupposes the truth of the laws of logic. Two propositions are coherent when both may be true, and are incoherent when one at least must be false. Now in order to know whether two propositions can both be true, we must know such truths as the law of contradiction. For example, the two…
Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy
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What pragmatism contends for is that you cannot adequately DEFINE the something if you leave the notion of the statement's functional workings out of your account. Truth meaning agreement with reality, the mode of the agreeing is a practical problem which the subjective term of the relation alone can solve. NOTE. This paper was originally followed by a couple of paragraphs meant to conciliate the intellectualist…
William James, The Meaning of Truth
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(2) Coherence.--Coherence as the definition of truth is advocated by idealists, particularly by those who in the main follow Hegel. It is set forth ably in Mr. Joachim's book, "The Nature of Truth" (Oxford, 1906).
Bertrand Russell, The Analysis of Mind
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For according as a thing is, or is not, our thoughts or our words about it are true or false. But when the mind is the rule or measure of things, truth consists in the equation of the thing to the mind; just as the work of an artist is said to be true, when it is in accordance with his art. Now as works of art are related to art, so are works of justice related to the law with which they accord. Therefore God's…
Aquinas Thomas, Summa Theologica, Part I
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But this is the very question on which everything turns. We must however in the first place understand clearly what we mean by Truth. In common life truth means the agreement of an object with our conception of it. We thus pre-suppose an object to which our conception must conform.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Logic of Hegel
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Philosophers who discussed Truth
- Józef Maria Bocheński
- Carneades
- Paul Carus
- Avicenna
- Heraclitus
- Hartry Field
- Karl Popper
- Arcesilaus
- Nicolas Malebranche
- Max Horkheimer
- William Whewell
- Anselm of Canterbury
- Xenophanes
- Intellectual
- Plato
- Protagoras
- Jean-François Lyotard
- Gianni Vattimo
- Robert Nozick
- Crispin Wright
- Martha Nussbaum
- Cornelius Castoriadis
- Michel Foucault
- Saul Kripke
Related ideas
- Category (Kant)
- Ṛta
- Belief
- Contextualism
- Cognition
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- History
- Jesus
- Faith
- Avicenna
- Ancient philosophy
- G. E. Moore
- Outline of ancient India
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Philosophical realism
- Hinduism
- Abrahamic religions
- Two truths doctrine
- Jain philosophy
- Immanuel Kant
- Type–token distinction
- Journalism
- Jainism
- Satya
Opposing perspectives
- Philosophical realism
- Moral nihilism
- Model theory
- Semantics
- Honesty
- Value theory
- Morality
- Beauty
- Logic
- Virtue
- Fact
- Subjectivism
- Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy)
- Possible world
- Proposition
- Epistemology
- Ethics
- Aesthetic interpretation
- Truth-bearer
- Opinion
- Transmission of the Greek Classics
- Computability logic
Place in the tradition
Part of Absurdism.