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Truth value
Overview
value indicating the relation of a proposition to truth
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Any one of the propositions of these aggregates may be true or false. It has no other alternative. Whichever it is, true or false, call it the "truth-value" of the proposition. The first section of logical inquiry is to settle what we know of the truth-values of these propositions, when we know the truth-values of some of them.
Alfred North Whitehead, The organisation of thought, educational and scientific
Names Truth value several times.
Thus, instead of drawing a distinction between the realms of fact and value, as between what is or can be common to all intelligent beings and what must be unique for each individual one, we must hold that the two realms are coextensive. The socially current object answers to a certain general type of conscious purpose or interest active in the individual and so to a general habit of valuation, and the concrete…
John Dewey, Studies in Logical Theory
Close in meaning to Truth value; the term itself is not named.
The copula is the sign denoting that there is an affirmation or denial; and thereby enabling the hearer or reader to distinguish a proposition from any other kind of discourse. Thus, in the proposition, The earth is round, the Predicate is the word _round_, which denotes the quality affirmed, or (as the phrase is) predicated: _the earth_, words denoting the object which that quality is affirmed of, compose the…
John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic
States what Truth value is.
Philosophers who discussed Truth value
- David Kaplan (philosopher)
- J. L. Austin
- C. I. Lewis
- Saul Kripke
- Alfred Tarski
- Edmund Husserl
- Kent Bach
- Joseph Margolis
- John Penn Mayberry
Related ideas
- Propositional variable
- Negation
- Intuitionistic logic
- Logical conjunction
- Logical connective
- Proof theory
- Relevance logic
- Mathematics
- Constructivism (philosophy of mathematics)
- Logical biconditional
- False (logic)
- Truth table
- Truth
- Total order
- Intuitionistic type theory
- 0
- Many-valued logic
- Bijection
- Boolean domain
- Boolean algebra (structure)
- Logical truth
- Type theory
- Logic
- Fuzzy logic
Place in the tradition
Part of Analytic philosophy.