Combining Texts
Ideas for
'Pragmatism - eight lectures', 'The Road to Serfdom' and 'Truth and Ontology'
expand these ideas
|
start again
|
choose
another area for these texts
display all the ideas for this combination of texts
20 ideas
3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 9. Rejecting Truth
|
18986
|
Truth is just a name for verification-processes [James]
|
3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 2. Truthmaker Relation
|
14415
|
A ground must be about its truth, and not just necessitate it [Merricks]
|
3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 5. What Makes Truths / a. What makes truths
|
14408
|
Truthmaker needs truths to be 'about' something, and that is often unclear [Merricks]
|
3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 5. What Makes Truths / b. Objects make truths
|
14395
|
If a ball changes from red to white, Truthmaker says some thing must make the change true [Merricks]
|
|
14398
|
Truthmaker says if an entity is removed, some nonexistence truthmaker must replace it [Merricks]
|
|
14403
|
If Truthmaker says each truth is made by the existence of something, the theory had de re modality at is core [Merricks]
|
3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 5. What Makes Truths / c. States of affairs make truths
|
14397
|
Truthmaker demands not just a predication, but an existing state of affairs with essential ingredients [Merricks]
|
3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 5. What Makes Truths / d. Being makes truths
|
14396
|
If 'truth supervenes on being', worlds with the same entities, properties and relations have the same truths [Merricks]
|
|
14400
|
If truth supervenes on being, that won't explain why truth depends on being [Merricks]
|
3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 6. Making Negative Truths
|
14394
|
It is implausible that claims about non-existence are about existing things [Merricks]
|
3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 11. Truthmaking and Correspondence
|
14390
|
Truthmaker isn't the correspondence theory, because it offers no analysis of truth [Merricks]
|
3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 12. Rejecting Truthmakers
|
14412
|
Speculations about non-existent things are not about existent things, so Truthmaker is false [Merricks]
|
|
14414
|
I am a truthmaker for 'that a human exists', but is it about me? [Merricks]
|
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]
|
|
14418
|
Being true is not a relation, it is a primitive monadic property [Merricks]
|
|
14391
|
If the correspondence theory is right, then necessary truths must correspond to something [Merricks]
|
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]
|
3. Truth / H. Deflationary Truth / 2. Deflationary Truth
|
14419
|
Deflationism just says there is no property of being truth [Merricks]
|