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17 Cards in this Set
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Defined knowledge as certified true belief |
Plato |
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A meaningful composition of words |
Sentence |
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Types of sentences |
Interrogative Optative Imperative Exclamatory |
Neither true or false |
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Sentences which are descriptive and informative |
Proposotions |
Either true or false |
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A set of indicative sentences or propositions |
Knowledge |
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Theories of truth |
Correspondence Coherence Pragmatic |
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Fidelity to objective reality |
Correspondence theory of Truth |
Truth is the agreement between the statement which describes the fact and the actual fact. |
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Advocators of correspondence |
John Locke Bertrand Russell |
Empiricists |
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Knowledge is a comprehensive and harmonious system of statements. |
Coherence theory of Truth |
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Advocators of coherence |
Bradley |
Rationalist philosopher |
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Pragma |
Act or deed |
Greek word Pragmatism |
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Who put forth the Pragmatic theory of Truth |
William James |
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Advocators of Pragmatic theory of Truth |
Pierce Schiller William James Jonh Dewey |
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John Dewey |
Instrumentalism |
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Truth is the faithful adherence of our judgements and ideas to the facts of experience or to the world as it is. |
Harold. H. Titus |
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Knowledge is a means of life |
Instrumentalism |
John Dewey |
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For_______there is no ultimate truth |
William James |
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