Truth

Question 1

“knowledge consist in having the truth and knowing that you have it because you know why, what you think is true is true . Whereas opinion consist in not having sure that you have the truth and even if you say is true you are not sure because you don’t know why it is true .”

Answer 1

Mortimer J. Adler (Explanation:
Knowledge is certainty about the truth and understanding why it’s true, while opinion is uncertainty about the truth and lacking understanding of why it might be true.)

Question 2

What is truth?

Answer 2

Is the property of being in accord with reality.

Question 3

What kind of evidence is truth based on?

Answer 3

Empirical Evidence

Question 4

If truth is based on an evidence, this explains that?

Answer 4

It is based on experience and observations about the external world.

Question 5

What is doubt?

Answer 5

It drives our desire to discover the truth.

Question 6

What are opinions?

Answer 6

Proposition, belief, arguments, that may be right or wrong, true or false

Question 7

Knowledge

Answer 7

Can’t be false and can’t be wrong

Question 8

What are facts?

Answer 8

Propositions which are observed to be real or truthful.

Question 9

What is conclusion?

Answer 9

Judgement based on certain facts. May not be disputed but conclusion itself could still be contested.

Question 10

What are beliefs?

Answer 10

Statements that express convictions that are not easily and clearly explained by facts.

Question 11

What are explanations?

Answer 11

Statements that assume the claim to be true.

Question 12

What are arguments?

Answer 12

Series of statements that provide reasons why the statement is true.

Question 13

Burcenian Table of Truth and Opinion

Answer 13

Explain the table

Question 14

Who are the philosophers in correspondence theory?

Answer 14

Plato and St. Augustine

Question 15

Concept of truth as reality which can be considered as an affirmation of itself.

Answer 15

Correspondence Theory

Question 16

What is Correspondence Theory?

Answer 16

It is something observable and verifiable by the senses.

Question 17

Distrust the senses as sources of knowledge and revealers of the real senses can report only the appearance of things

Answer 17

Idealism, Hunter Mead

Question 18

Who are the philosophers in coherence theory?

Answer 18

• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
• Baruch Spinoza
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• Francis Herbert Bradley

Question 19

Statement is true if it can be put logically, consistently, and systematically into a coherent body of knowledge or harmonizes with other established truth of our knowledge as a whole.

Answer 19

Coherence Theory

Question 20

Beliefs must be logically consistent with other true belief in order to be also true. This means that if one belief is inconsistent with other accepted beliefs , its probably wrong.

Answer 20

Coherence Theory

Question 21

Pragmatism Theory

Answer 21

Originally expounded by Charles sanders peirce
Developed and popularized by William james
Applied and propagated by john dewey

Question 22

Rooted In the idea that before you determine the truth of any idea you must have asked the question “does it work.?”

Answer 22

Pragmatism Theory