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3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 1. Truth
10916 Truth is either intuiting a way of being, or a putting together [Aristotle]
10914 Simple and essential truth seems to be given, with further truth arising in thinking [Aristotle]
10913 Truth is a matter of asserting correct combinations and separations [Aristotle]
3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 6. Verisimilitude
575 If one error is worse than another, it must be because it is further from the truth [Aristotle]
3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 9. Rejecting Truth
18986 Truth is just a name for verification-processes [James]
3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 1. For Truthmakers
15775 Truth-thinking does not make it so; it being so is what makes it true [Aristotle]
3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 5. What Makes Truths / a. What makes truths
10915 The truth or falsity of a belief will be in terms of something that is always this way not that [Aristotle]
3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 1. Correspondence Truth
586 Falsity says that which is isn't, and that which isn't is; truth says that which is is, and that which isn't isn't [Aristotle]
19165 Aristotle's truth formulation concerns referring parts of sentences, not sentences as wholes [Aristotle, by Davidson]
3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 3. Correspondence Truth critique
18983 In many cases there is no obvious way in which ideas can agree with their object [James]
3. Truth / D. Coherence Truth / 1. Coherence Truth
18972 Ideas are true in so far as they co-ordinate our experiences [James]
18973 New opinions count as 'true' if they are assimilated to an individual's current beliefs [James]
3. Truth / E. Pragmatic Truth / 1. Pragmatic Truth
18984 True ideas are those we can assimilate, validate, corroborate and verify (and false otherwise) [James]