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In this word of "Post Truth" "Truthiness" and "alternate facts" maybe we need to have a conversation about "Truth" and how to recognize it?
4 common truth theories or criteria:
Setting religious truth aside, can these be helpful in dealing with our mundane existence. Or have religious beliefs staked too big a claim on how we decide what is true in our world. (I.E., age and shape of the Earth)?
4 common truth theories or criteria:
- The correspondence theory of truth — that whatever corresponds to observable reality is true.
- The coherence theory of truth — that claims are true if they follow logically and coherently from a set of axioms (or intermediate propositions).
- The consensus theory of truth — that what is true is what everyone agrees to be true.
- The pragmatic theory of truth — that what is true is what is useful to you, or beneficial for you.
The Four Theories of Truth As a Method for Critical Thinking
How learning and using the four theories of truth can help us become better thinkers, better practitioners, and (hopefully!) better writers.
commoncog.com
Setting religious truth aside, can these be helpful in dealing with our mundane existence. Or have religious beliefs staked too big a claim on how we decide what is true in our world. (I.E., age and shape of the Earth)?