Truth Philosophers are interested in a constellation of issues involving the concept of truth. A preliminary issue, although somewhat subsidiary, is to decide what sorts of things can be true. Is truth a property of sentences (which are linguistic entities in some language or other), or is truth a property of propositions (nonlinguistic, abstract and timeless entities)? The principal issue is: What is truth? It is the problem of being clear about what you are saying when you say some claim or other is true. Can claims about the future be true now? Table of Contents 1. The principal problem is to offer a viable theory as to what truth itself consists in, or, to put it another way, “What is the nature of truth?” This philosophical problem of truth has been with us for a long time. The three most widely accepted contemporary theories of truth are [i] the Correspondence Theory ; [ii] the Semantic Theory of Tarski and Davidson; and [iii] the Deflationary Theory of Frege and Ramsey. 2. a. b.
Clementine Ford: We need to move past the idea that everything is up for debate Former US Senator and political advisor Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously once wrote that "everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts". It remains an unwavering truth in a world where opinions are increasingly viewed as equal to facts, even when those opinions have little more than a suspicion or feeling to back them up. More recently than that, Ruby Hamad wrote that "We may all have the right to an opinion but that does not make our opinion right – or even worthy of a place in a debate." The science behind vaccinations is a good example of this. But press them on their qualifications to counter decades worth of scientific research and you'll hear about how "Big Pharma" is invested in turning us all into robots. The rhetoric around anti-choice movements is similarly lacking in insight. Too many people labour under the bizarre assumption now that everything requires "hearing all sides" if there is to be fair and balanced commentary.
Why I Write - Essay by George Orwell Why I Write by George OrwellGangrel, [No. 4, Summer] 1946 From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books. I was the middle child of three, but there was a gap of five years on either side, and I barely saw my father before I was eight. For this and other reasons I was somewhat lonely, and I soon developed disagreeable mannerisms which made me unpopular throughout my schooldays. However, throughout this time I did in a sense engage in literary activities. When I was about sixteen I suddenly discovered the joy of mere words, i.e. the sounds and associations of words. So hee with difficulty and labour hard Moved on: with difficulty and labour hee. (i) Sheer egoism. (ii) Aesthetic enthusiasm. It is not easy.
There is no 'debate' to be had over the existence of male privilege COMMENT: This approach to "objectivity" needs to be put to rest once and for all. Not every topic is up for debate. Hack Live host Tom Tilley's 'male privilege' debate is grossly misguided. TRIPLE J's current affairs show Hack has been tackling some big feminist-related topics lately. A few weeks ago it was "stealthing", a rather generous term for what is essentially a form of sexual assault, and now Hack is preparing for a "live debate" on June 20, in which feminists and people who hate them will argue for and against the following premise: 'Is male privilege bullshit?' In this "debate", host Tom Tilley is set to ask the question, "does male privilege really exist and if so, how does it impact us today?" Houston …we have a problem. Even so, the entire exercise is grossly misguided. This, of course, is the basis of much journalism today. This approach to "objectivity" needs to be put to rest once and for all. Not every topic is up for debate. - The Age
Scary Paranormal Stories » Locations & Sites Rating: 8.1/10 (263 votes cast) 1. It is the year 2037. Yeah, okay. Alright, I’m sorry for being so unclear about what happened exactly. Even though I like my work, my cat and my lifestyle, I haven’t felt at ease in my home for the past months. Perhaps you’re wondering what exactly happened to Jimmy? 25 years ago, while I was browsing the internet looking for some interesting things to write about, I stumbled upon a story about a house that had been empty for 135 years, but was never torn down. I questioned several archive workers, but none of them were able to tell me something I didn’t already know about the house. Jimmy was always up for some fun. 2. Jimmy’s facial expression changed. ‘Alright man, let’s do it! We drove to the building and after we arrived we immediately got out of the car. I took the photos of the house out of my pocket and held one of them next to the house to compare. Jimmy leaned in to take a look for himself. ‘Come on, let’s enter.’ 3. ‘You two are reporters? 4.
What Trump Has Quietly Accomplished - The Atlantic The actual government, the administration of Donald Trump, is coming off the worst week of his presidency, although there haven’t been any smooth weeks. Trump’s top legislative priority, repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, seems dead for the moment. (Tax reform? Things are going considerably better for the shadow government. The trick here is that the administration and this shadow government are one and the same. There is so much attention paid to the chaos in the executive branch that it’s easy to come to believe that Trump is getting nothing whatsoever accomplished. Trump’s complaints that the press is ignoring his victories in favor of covering controversies ring hollow. “Let me put it this way,” the secretary of housing and urban development told the Washington Examiner. Meanwhile, Trump continues to make preposterous claims. One of the two biggest victories has come on border security, which was one of Trump’s top campaign priorities.
What is Occam's Razor? [Physics FAQ] - [Copyright] Updated 1997 by Sugihara Hiroshi. Original by Phil Gibbs 1996. Occam's (or Ockham's) razor is a principle attributed to the 14th century logician and Franciscan friar William of Ockham. The principle states that "Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily." "Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate" "Frustra fit per plura quod potest fieri per pauciora" "Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem" In fact, only the first two of these forms appear in his surviving works and the third was written by a later scholar. Many scientists have adopted or reinvented Occam's Razor, as in Leibniz's "identity of observables" and Isaac Newton stated the rule: "We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances." The most useful statement of the principle for scientists is "when you have two competing theories that make exactly the same predictions, the simpler one is the better." References: W.
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