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Hamman, Jay. "The Spinozist Theory of Truth." OpenSIUC, 2011. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/602.
Full textMarquis, Jean-Pierre. "Towards a theory of partial truth." Thesis, McGill University, 1988. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=75841.
Full textManolakaki, Eleni. "Truth evaluability in radical interpretation theory." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/1791.
Full textAlexander, Emil. "A behaviorist correspondence theory of truth." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Avdelningen för teoretisk filosofi, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-417232.
Full textFujimoto, Kentaro. "Axiomatic studies of truth." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:075b7c37-efe2-4662-a108-e50ca3fb0d68.
Full textHulatt, Owen. "Texturalism and performance : Adorno's Theory of Truth." Thesis, University of York, 2011. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/1904/.
Full textTaylor, Neil. "Davidson's truth conditions theory and scientific realism." Thesis, University of Surrey, 1985. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/848102/.
Full textKortum, Richard Dennis. "Theory of meaning : sense, force, tone and truth." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1994. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3995121e-4d4f-4621-a5a7-ed3da6958fd3.
Full textMitchell, David Michael Charles. "Conative rationality : study of a truth-centred theory." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.670352.
Full textSievers, Kenneth Henry. "F.H. Bradley and The Coherence Theory of Truth /." The Ohio State University, 1996. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487932351059625.
Full textDavid, Marian Alexander. "Substantivism and deflationism in the theory of truth." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/185084.
Full textRogers, Donald J. "Taking theory seriously, pragmatism, truth, and the foundations of international relations theory." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0004/MQ45118.pdf.
Full textLumpkin, Jonathan. "A Semantic Conception of Truth." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2014. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/honors_theses/60.
Full textCameron, Ross P. "The source of modal truth." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/10949.
Full textFleming, Forrest Shoup. "Truth, Belief, and Inquiry| A New Theory of Knowledge." Thesis, University of California, Irvine, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3626962.
Full textMy dissertation lies at the philosophical intersection of the American pragmatist tradition and contemporary epistemology. By treating truth, justification, and belief as matters of degree, I develop a measure of knowledge that captures all of our fundamental intuitions while providing answers to the problems of epistemic luck, skepticism, and scientific pessimism.
Traditionally, knowledge is understood as justified true belief that is not due to luck. My project follows this general outline. First, I describe the pragmatist understanding of truth first articulated by Charles Sanders Peirce in the late nineteenth century. My first chapter offers Peirce's understanding of truth as the best explanation of our intuitive understanding of what it is for a proposition to be the case and shows how we can understand Peirce's theory as compatible with contemporary theories of truth.
In my second chapter, I develop a theory of belief such that an agent believes a proposition when she acts as if that proposition were a rule governing her behavior. On this view, beliefs are theoretical entities posited to make sense of other agents' actions. Following this account of belief, I describe what it is for a belief to be true and argue that sense of truth in which beliefs are true is best understood as an approximation of the full descriptive truth.
My third, fourth, and fifth chapters are an account of justification. Chapter 3 is a descriptive account of synchronic justification: we all reject or accept propositions in accordance with maximizing the coherence of our belief-networks. Chapters 4 and 5 articulate and then defend a new measure of diachronic justification, which is a measure of the degree to which a belief is appropriately revisable and therefore embeddable in an ongoing process of fallibilist inquiry. I develop a novel formal quantification of methodological justification and show that it gives plausible results when applied to popular cases.
My final chapter brings justification, truth, and belief together into a scalar knowledge measure. I locate my theory in ongoing epistemic inquiry, describing its conceptual advantages over rival theories as well as its ability to replicate their successes.
Sweeney, Paula. "A defence of the Kaplanian theory of sentence truth." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3070.
Full textWinn, Joshua Paul. "An evaluation of George Lindbeck's theory of doctrinal truth." Dallas, TX : Dallas Theological Seminary, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.2986/tren.001-1252.
Full textFrey, Renea C. "Speaking Truth to Power: Recovering a Rhetorical Theory of Parrhesia." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1437616990.
Full textWarshaw, Mark. "The cognitive challenge to the truth conditional theory of meaning /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3170238.
Full textNøhr, Andreas Aagaard. "Tyrants of truth : a genealogy of hyper-real politics." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2017. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3663/.
Full textDodd, J. M. N. "Fact and thought : in defence of an identity theory of truth." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.282065.
Full textArıcı, Murat. "A study on the connection between justification and truth /." Ankara : METU, 2003. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/1214535/index.pdf.
Full textFluck, Matthew. "The hardest service : conceptions of truth in critical international thought." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2160/355fa6ab-4c02-46e9-960d-a48ccfa9cc54.
Full textPolak, Alan. "Role of children's theory of mind in the expressive behaviours accompanying everyday deceit." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.360424.
Full textDeagon, Alex. "The Contours of Truth: Using Christian Theology and Philosophy to Construct a Jurisprudence of Truth." Thesis, Griffith University, 2015. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/110544/2/110544.pdf.
Full textJacinto, Bruno. "Necessitism, contingentism and theory equivalence." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/8814.
Full textHale, Evan L. "Knowledge, Truth, and the Challenge of Revisability: A Critique of Actor-Network Theory." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1333733604.
Full textClementson, David E. "Deception Detection in Politics: Partisan Processing through the Lens of Truth-Default Theory." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1492029358496203.
Full textWong, Alan. "Alisdair MacIntyre's theory of truth the hermeneutical turn in a tradition-constituted rationality /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2002. http://www.tren.com.
Full textLloyd, Michael Scott. "Is there such a thing as objective truth? evangelical reaction to postmodernism /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1999. http://www.tren.com.
Full textWiitala, Michael Oliver. "Truth and Falsehood in Plato's Sophist." UKnowledge, 2014. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/philosophy_etds/3.
Full textAgostoni, Egede Carlo. "Blowing the Whistle : Narratives and Frames of Truth-Telling." Thesis, Perpignan, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PERP0004.
Full textThis dissertation posits that whistleblowing is factual truth-telling, or truthful public denunciation. In scholarship, media, and in the popular perception of whistleblowing, the truth-claim is often overlooked, and in many occasions hampered by the dominant ways it is framed (e.g. as leak, which is explored among other frames as a problematic conceptual metaphor). Interestingly, the representation of the whistleblower is different in cultural narratives. Through close readings of a selection of cases, the pursuit, importance, and impact of truth will appear as the central theme in the explored plots, but also the moments where truth becomes impotent, due to its coercive nature as factuality - a process that furthermore connects whistleblowing with the idea of the tragic. Put differently, the special literary interest of narratives of whistleblowing is to turn ignorance into knowledge, knowledge into telling, and how the unraveling of truth becomes a reversal of fortune for the truth-teller who enters a particular tragic conflict. As frame, as narrative, and as a modern phenomenon of truthful public denunciation, whistleblowing offers particular moments of truth, often about moments of falsehood, and ultimately seeks to be a moment of impetus: for the public to restore justice, and for readerships and audience of narrative and dramatic configurations to choose or to distance themselves from multiple proposals of justice emplotted - not only ethical justice, but also epistemic, hermeneutical, and testimonial justice. In other words, whistleblowers, by telling the truth, seek to expand the epistemic space in the public sphere and hold people and power accountable
Ham, Young-kwon. "Thomas's successive discussions of the nature of truth in Sentences 1.19.5, De veritate 1, and Summa theologiae 1.16." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2000. http://www.tren.com.
Full textFodor, Jim. "#Reference' in Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutical theory and its implications for assessing theological truth claims." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.385374.
Full textCharney, John. "The illusion of the free press : the place of truth in the liberal theory." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2014. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-illusion-of-the-free-press(08b5fb98-f6cb-4f45-9ff1-9102d85a003a).html.
Full textShapiro, Lucy Deborah. "Intellectual achievement in pursuit of true belief." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1005955.
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Null, Daniel L. "Anti-foundationalism in Nancey Murphy and her ability to make theological truth claims." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2000. http://www.tren.com.
Full textBarthold, Lauren Swayne. "Contingency, truth, and tradition Alasdair MacIntyre's and Richard Rorty's view of narrative /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1993. http://www.tren.com.
Full textBåve, Arvid. "Deflationism : A Use-Theoretic Analysis of the Truth-Predicate." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Filosofiska institutionen, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-999.
Full textSlagle, Derek Ray. "The significance for, and impact upon, public administration of the correspondence theory of truth or veridicality." Thesis, Florida Atlantic University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10154943.
Full textThe dissertation is about the significance for, and impact upon public administration of the correspondence theory of truth or veridicality, and its underlying epistemological assumptions. The underlying thesis is that, unduly influenced by the success of the natural sciences, and naïve in accepting their claims to objectivity, many disciplines have sought to emulate them. There are two principle objections. Firstly, all other considerations aside, the supposedly objectivistic methodologies apparently applied to the explanation and prediction of the behavior of interactions of physical objects, may simply be inappropriate to certain other areas of inquiry; and more specifically objectivist methodologies are indeed inappropriate to understanding of human subjects, and their behavior, relations and interactions, and thus to public administration. The second objection is that it is of course logically impossible for any supposedly empirical discipline, as the natural sciences claim to be, to justify the belief in a supposedly objective realm of things-in-themselves existing outside, beyond, or independently of the changing, interrupted and different ‘appearances’ or experiences, to which an empirical science is qua empirical, necessarily restricted. Correspondence of any empirical observations or appearances (and the consequent or presupposed theoretical explanations) to an objective realm, upon which the claim to objectivity is based, is unverifiable.
In light of the above it becomes evident that far from being objective, the natural sciences themselves, and the empirical observations upon which they are supposedly grounded, are subject to conceptual mediation and subjective interpretation; subjective and inter-subjective coherence replacing objective correspondence as the criterion of veridicality. Consequently it becomes clear that the presuppositions and prejudices of the observers enter, in the forms of concepts and preconceptions, into the very observations, and even more so into the theoretical constructions, or theories, of the natural, and indeed human and social sciences, and their claims to be authoritative and true. Subsequent discussion is then focused on both the coherence of individuals’ experiences and understanding, and their inter-subjective coherence – which both rises from and constitutes, a “community”. The role of language facilitates such coherence.
Malmgren, Daniel. "Police officers’ and police students’ beliefs about deception in the framework of the Truth-Default Theory." Thesis, Högskolan Kristianstad, Fakulteten för hälsovetenskap, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-22085.
Full textLundqvist, Martin. "The truth is out there : Is it irrational to believe in conspiracy theories?" Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Filosofiska institutionen, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-168712.
Full textGiarolo, Kariel Antonio. "FREGE E A TEORIA DA VERDADE COMO IDENTIDADE." Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, 2011. http://repositorio.ufsm.br/handle/1/9095.
Full textThe main objective of this work consists in investigating the relationship between Frege s conception of truth and the so called Identity Theory of Truth . An identity theory of truth is described in literature as the thesis sustaining that truth consists, fundamentally, in the identity between the content of a judgment or proposition and a fact. The proposition expressed by a sentence, as in Aristotle was a disciple of Plato , is true if, and only if, it is a fact that Aristotle was a disciple of Plato. Thus, the contents of the sentences would be in a relation of identity towards the facts, and would not be in a relation of correspondence, as classic theories of truth sustain. In Der Gedanke, published in 1918, Frege seems to sustain this theory, even though his conception of truth is much larger than that. On the article, he explicitly affirms that a fact is a thought that is true. Such affirmation fits perfectly in the identity theory of truth s slogan. Nevertheless, there s plenty of discussion on the subject in secondary literature. Authors such as Baldwin, Dodd, Kemp, Horsnby and Sluga have discussed the identification between facts and true thoughts, and have given explanations that are sometimes rather antagonistic. That is why it is of great value the reconstruction and the discussion of such interpretations, in the attempt to clarify Frege s purpose on the referred affirmation. Along with that, it is necessary to review other aspects of Frege s philosophy, since his conception of truth in general, and, particularly, the identity theory of truth, are connected to the whole of his philosophy.
A presente dissertação tem como objetivo central investigar a relação entre a concepção fregeana de verdade e a chamada teoria da verdade como identidade (Identity Theory of Truth). Uma teoria da verdade como identidade é caracterizada na literatura como a tese segundo a qual verdade consistiria, fundamentalmente, na identidade entre o conteúdo de um juízo ou proposição e um fato. A proposição expressa por uma sentença, como Aristóteles foi discípulo de Platão , é verdadeira se, e somente se, é um fato que Aristóteles foi discípulo de Platão. Assim sendo, os conteúdos das sentenças estariam em uma relação de identidade com fatos e não em uma relação de correspondência, como as teorias clássicas da verdade irão defender. Em Der Gedanke de 1918, Frege parece defender essa teoria, mesmo que a concepção fregeana de verdade seja muito mais ampla do que isso. Neste artigo, ele explicitamente afirma que um fato é um pensamento que é verdadeiro. E tal afirmação encaixa-se perfeitamente no slogan da teoria da verdade como identidade. Não obstante, na literatura secundária existe uma série de discussões sobre esse tópico. Autores como Baldwin, Dodd, Kemp, Horsnby e Sluga irão discutir essa identificação entre fatos e pensamentos verdadeiros dando respostas por vezes antagônicas. Por isso, é de grande importância reconstruir e discutir essas interpretações na tentativa de esclarecer o propósito de Frege ao fazer tal afirmação. Conjuntamente, outros aspectos da filosofia fregeana necessitam ser explicitados, pois a concepção fregeana de verdade em geral e a teoria da verdade como identidade, em particular, estão ligadas ao restante de sua filosofia.
Huang, Kuei-ying. "A Brighter Truth : Considering Pre-Raphaelite Colour in the Theory and Practice of the Victorian Art World." Thesis, University of Essex, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.520051.
Full textPenn, Stephen. "Truth, time and sacred text : responses to medieval nominalism in John Wyclif's Summa de Ente and De Veritate Sacrae Scripturae." Thesis, University of York, 1998. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/16328/.
Full textTuckett, Anthony Gerrard. "Truth-telling in aged care : a qualitative study." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2003. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/15862/1/Anthony_Tuckett_Thesis.pdf.
Full textTuckett, Anthony Gerrard. "Truth-telling in aged care: a qualitative study." Queensland University of Technology, 2003. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/15862/.
Full textJacoway, Paul R. "Are Documentaries Journalism? The Gap Between a Shared Truth and Verification." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1406801661.
Full textSHIDA, Taisei. "THE THEORY OF TRUTH IN THE CLASSICAL NYĀYA SYSTEM: ON THE CONDITION OF PRAVṚTTI AND THE MEANS OF JUSTIFICATION." 名古屋大学大学院文学研究科インド文化学研究室 (Department of Indian Studies, Graduate School of Letters, Nagoya University), 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/19255.
Full textEpperson, Melinda Lawrie. "Truth or Consequences—Academic Physicians’ Perspective in the Management of Commercially-influenced Conflicts of Interest." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2015. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2069.
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