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'The Rationality of Science', 'Ideas: intro to pure phenomenology' and 'The Evolution of Logic'
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3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 6. Verisimilitude
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More truthful theories have greater predictive power [Newton-Smith]
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Theories generate infinite truths and falsehoods, so they cannot be used to assess probability [Newton-Smith]
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3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 2. Correspondence to Facts
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Tarski showed how we could have a correspondence theory of truth, without using 'facts' [Hart,WD]
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3. Truth / F. Semantic Truth / 1. Tarski's Truth / b. Satisfaction and truth
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Truth for sentences is satisfaction of formulae; for sentences, either all sequences satisfy it (true) or none do [Hart,WD]
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3. Truth / F. Semantic Truth / 2. Semantic Truth
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A first-order language has an infinity of T-sentences, which cannot add up to a definition of truth [Hart,WD]
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