A report on Truth
Property of being in accord with fact or reality.
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Honesty
0 linksHonesty or truthfulness is a facet of moral character that connotes positive and virtuous attributes such as integrity, truthfulness, straightforwardness, including straightforwardness of conduct, along with the absence of lying, cheating, theft, etc. Honesty also involves being trustworthy, loyal, fair, and sincere.
Crispin Wright
0 linksCrispin James Garth Wright (born 21 December 1942) is a British philosopher, who has written on neo-Fregean (neo-logicist) philosophy of mathematics, Wittgenstein's later philosophy, and on issues related to truth, realism, cognitivism, skepticism, knowledge, and objectivity.
Dialectic
1 linksDialectic (, dialektikḗ; related to dialogue; Dialektik), also known as the dialectical method, is a discourse between two or more people holding different points of view about a subject but wishing to establish the truth through reasoned argumentation.
Stoicism
2 linksSchool of Hellenistic religion founded by Zeno of Citium in Athens in the early 3rd century BC. It is a philosophy of personal eudaemonic virtue ethics informed by its system of logic and its views on the natural world, asserting that the practice of virtue is both necessary and sufficient to achieve eudaimonia—flourishing by means of living an ethical life.
School of Hellenistic religion founded by Zeno of Citium in Athens in the early 3rd century BC. It is a philosophy of personal eudaemonic virtue ethics informed by its system of logic and its views on the natural world, asserting that the practice of virtue is both necessary and sufficient to achieve eudaimonia—flourishing by means of living an ethical life.
Truth can be distinguished from fallacy—even if, in practice, only an approximation can be made.
Karl Popper
4 linksAustrian-British philosopher, academic and social commentator.
Austrian-British philosopher, academic and social commentator.
The theory met critical objections to truth as correspondence and thereby rehabilitated it.
Good faith
0 linksSincere intention to be fair, open, and honest, regardless of the outcome of the interaction.
Sincere intention to be fair, open, and honest, regardless of the outcome of the interaction.
In law, bona fides denotes the mental and moral states of honesty and conviction regarding either the truth or the falsity of a proposition, or of a body of opinion; likewise regarding either the rectitude or the depravity of a line of conduct.
Pyrrhonism
1 linksSchool of philosophical skepticism founded by Pyrrho in the fourth century BCE.
School of philosophical skepticism founded by Pyrrho in the fourth century BCE.
Pyrrhonists dispute that the dogmatists – which includes all of Pyrrhonism's rival philosophies – have found truth regarding non-evident matters.
Coherence theory of truth
1 linksCoherence theories of truth characterize truth as a property of whole systems of propositions that can be ascribed to individual propositions only derivatively according to their coherence with the whole.
Coherence theories of truth characterize truth as a property of whole systems of propositions that can be ascribed to individual propositions only derivatively according to their coherence with the whole.
According to one view, the coherence theory of truth regards truth as coherence within some specified set of sentences, propositions or beliefs.
Two truths doctrine
0 linksThe Buddhist doctrine of the two truths differentiates between two levels of satya (Sanskrit; Pali: sacca; word meaning "truth" or "reality") in the teaching of the Śākyamuni Buddha: the "conventional" or "provisional" (saṁvṛti) truth, and the "ultimate" (paramārtha) truth.
Avicenna
2 linksHis most famous works are The Book of Healing, a philosophical and scientific encyclopedia, and The Canon of Medicine, a medical encyclopedia which became a standard medical text at many medieval universities and remained in use as late as 1650.
His most famous works are The Book of Healing, a philosophical and scientific encyclopedia, and The Canon of Medicine, a medical encyclopedia which became a standard medical text at many medieval universities and remained in use as late as 1650.
Avicenna referred to the living human intelligence, particularly the active intellect, which he believed to be the hypostasis by which God communicates truth to the human mind and imparts order and intelligibility to nature.