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Ideas for 'Metaphysics', 'Propositions' and 'Sameness and Substance Renewed'

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3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 1. Truth
Truth is either intuiting a way of being, or a putting together [Aristotle]
Simple and essential truth seems to be given, with further truth arising in thinking [Aristotle]
Truth is a matter of asserting correct combinations and separations [Aristotle]
3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 5. Truth Bearers
Are the truth-bearers sentences, utterances, ideas, beliefs, judgements, propositions or statements? [Cartwright,R]
Logicians take sentences to be truth-bearers for rigour, rather than for philosophical reasons [Cartwright,R]
3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 6. Verisimilitude
If one error is worse than another, it must be because it is further from the truth [Aristotle]