Tag
Truth
Entries tagged truth.
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Tradition
Pragmatism
The meaning and truth of an idea lie in its practical consequences: a belief is a rule for action, and inquiry, not correspondence to a fixed reality, is where knowledge is settled.
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Thought experimentThe Gettier Problem
A short 1963 paper showed that a belief can be true, and justified, and still not count as knowledge, breaking a definition that had stood since Plato.
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ConceptTheories of Truth
Rival accounts of what makes a proposition true: matching the world, fitting a system, working in practice, or nothing substantive at all.
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