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... Truth is a mobile army of metaphors , metonyms , and anthropomorphisms - in short a sum of human relations , which ... truth is the correspondence between our ideas and an independent reality . Since there is no privileged perspective ...
... Truth is a mobile army of metaphors , metonyms , and anthropomorphisms - in short a sum of human relations , which ... truth is the correspondence between our ideas and an independent reality . Since there is no privileged perspective ...
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The Quest for Truth Louis P. Pojman. Russell goes on to specify the conditions for an adequate theory of truth and shows how the correspondence theory meets these conditions , whereas the coherence theory does not . ( A biographical ...
The Quest for Truth Louis P. Pojman. Russell goes on to specify the conditions for an adequate theory of truth and shows how the correspondence theory meets these conditions , whereas the coherence theory does not . ( A biographical ...
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... truths are things of the same kind as falsehoods . In fact , truth and falsehood are properties of beliefs and statements : hence a world of mere matter , since it would contain no beliefs or statements , would also contain no truth or ...
... truths are things of the same kind as falsehoods . In fact , truth and falsehood are properties of beliefs and statements : hence a world of mere matter , since it would contain no beliefs or statements , would also contain no truth or ...
Contents
What Is Philosophy? | 1 |
A Little Bit of Logic | 23 |
Philosophy of Religion 3355 | 35 |
Copyright | |
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