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Kinds of Truth Flashcards

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It is a kind of property whose opposite is falsity

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Truth

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3 CANDIDATES FOR THE BEARERS OF TRUTH

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  • Sentences
  • Statement
  • Belief
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Also called a proposition that refers to a linguistic expression whose function is to advance a certain claim

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Statement

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The mental expressions of our claims

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Belief

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Something that occurs in the world, and it is what makes a certain statement true

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Fact

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8 KINDS OF TRUTH

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  • Empirical and Rational
  • Synthetic and Analytic
  • Contingent and Necessary
  • Private and Public
  • Subjective and Objective
  • Universal and Relative
  • Certain and Probable
  • Disciplinal Truths
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Established by means of sense experience

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Empirical truth

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Means that it can only be known after some relevant experience

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Posteriori

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Established by means of reason

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Rational truth

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Means that it can be known before some relevant experience

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Priori

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Extends our knowledge

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Synthetic truth

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Does not extend our knowledge. Definitions and identity statements are good examples of this

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Analytic truth

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Not true in all possible situations

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Contingent truth

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True in all possible situation

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Necessary truth

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Can only be known directly by the person who has the belief or makes the statement considered to be true. Truth of psychological statements, or statements about one’s own mental states is an example of this

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Private truth

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Can, in principle be known directly by everyone

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Public truth

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Dependent on the attitude, preferences or interest of a person or a group of persons. Value judgements such as aesthetic judgements are usually this kind

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Subjective truth

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Not dependent. Factual judgements is an example of this

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Objective truth

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Something is universally true if its truth is acknowledged by everyone

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Universal truth

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Something which is relatively true if its truth is acknowledge only by some people

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Relative truth

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The truth of the statement arrived at through the process of deductive reasoning, is certain

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Certain/ Deductive truth

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The truth arrived at through the process of inductive reasoning, is merely probable

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Probable/Inductive truth

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For instance, we have religious truth, scientific truth the truth concerns the truth of religious statements or beliefs; scientific truth, the truth of scientific statements or beliefs; psychological truth, the truth of psychological statements or beliefs; and so on

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Disciplinal truths

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