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Empty slade
Cosellaty- connected
Induction/ deduction you deduct information for something,
or you go from a specif case into a general rule
Linguistic turn ~ Wittgenstein
Believe in truth
Philosophy of science
- Paradym Thomas Kuhn ( 1922-1996)
- Verification you have a theory that predicts something which
you can confirm
- Falsification Popper why is something scientific? Have a
theory which you falsify
Knowledge = JTB ( justified, true, belief)
To what extent is it possible to say : Truth is what true for me ?
- What is the epistemological problem presented by such an
affirmation?
- Does this problem affect what science claims?
- Can we renounce the search for truth?
Truth= Subjective v.s Objective
(generally accepted)
4 Theories of truth
- correspondence a statement is true when it corresponds with
something
- Convention
- Pragmatism
- Coherence -
Truth is objective
(meaningless)
Pick a theory out of the
4 options.
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Truth is Subjective
(meaningful)