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Quora – Can any belief be guaranteed as true when, as history has shown us, in the future, we may find that everything we believe currently is false?
Quora – Can any belief be guaranteed as true when, as history has shown us, in the future, we may find that everything we believe currently is false? Only one (the thing that Descartes got right) – “Cogito ergo sum”, … Continue reading
Metaphysics and Truth – Robert again.
Foundations of Logic – Muhammad asked “Is metaphysics possible?” Robert replied – “Yes, of course” LOL. This explains completely why Robert & I can agree about very little. For me, it seems clear from evidence that metaphysics as it is … Continue reading
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Truth and binary vs non-binary – again
Suppose theres a statement LP such that: 1) LP = ~True(LP) THEN 2) True(LP) = True(~True(LP)) AND 3) True(LP) = ~True(LP) THEREFOR There is no such statement LP. (QED) The assumption that statements are either true or false assumes simple … Continue reading
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Truth? continued
Truth continued Sigurd started a new thread derived from a subset of my original post Hi Sigurd, My argument is not with the truths derived from the acceptance of any set of postulates (ZFC or any others). I quite explicitly … Continue reading
Foundations of Logic – Is Truth an illusion?
I started a discussion on Truth on Foundations of Logic group Is Truth just a sometimes useful illusion? What is truth? What is this idea we have of something being True? Clearly, truth doesn’t just reside in the existence of … Continue reading
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Tagged Evolution, freedom, future, Philosophy, Responsibility, risk mitigation, successive approximations to truth, truth, understanding
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Foundations of Logic – Truth is transient
Original post in FOLogic – by Manju Sambander – Truth is Transient – All agree? Robert Mosimann replied – It was never True that the earth was flat. Depends what one means by true. There are at least three quite … Continue reading
Quora – Correspondence theory
What are the weak points of correspondence theory? For me, the weaknesses are not so much with correspondence theory, but with our understandings of reality and our place in it, and the distinction between our experiential reality and whatever it … Continue reading
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