Tag Archives: Truth Theory

Peirce on Semiosis and Inquiry Peirce’s theory of truth depends on two other, intimately related subject matters, his theory of sign relations and his theory of inquiry.  Inquiry is special case of semiosis, a process passing from signs to signs while … Continue reading →

Peirce on Reality, Signs, Truth Very little in Peirce’s thought can be understood in its proper light without understanding he thinks all thoughts are signs, and thus, according to his theory of thought, no thought is understandable outside the context … Continue reading →

Re: Pragmatic Truth • Discussion • (26) • (27) Re: FB | Cybersemiotics • Richard Saunders RS: My intention was not to expand the correspondence theory of truth but to narrow it with specific constraints.  I think of it as … Continue reading →

Re: Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 26 Re: FB | Cybersemiotics • Richard Saunders RS: Agreed, but given those qualifications (the perspective on facts qualified by the pragmatic maxim and the perspective on correspondence qualified by irreducible triadic relations) the pragmatic … Continue reading →

Re: Pragmatic Truth • (1) • (2) Re: OEIS Wiki | Correspondence Theory Of Truth Re: FB | Inquiry Driven Systems • Richard Saunders RS: The pragmatic theory of truth seems to be a correspondence theory in which all the … Continue reading →

Re: Pragmatic Truth • (1) • (2) Re: OEIS Wiki | Correspondence Theory Of Truth Re: FB | Inquiry Driven Systems • Richard Saunders RS: Given that “facts are basically combinations of objects together with their properties or relations;  so … Continue reading →

Truth Theories Theories of truth may be described according to several dimensions of description affecting the character of the predicate “true”.  The truth predicates used in different theories may be classified according to the number of things which have to … Continue reading →

Truth Predicates An inquiry into the character of truth generally begins with the idea of an informative, meaningful, or significant element, the goodness of whose information, meaning, or significance may be put in question and needs to be evaluated.  Depending … Continue reading →

Truth as the Good of Logic Pragmatic theories of truth enter on a stage set by the philosophies of former ages, with special reference to the Ancient Greeks, the Scholastics, and Immanuel Kant.  Recalling a few elements of that background can … Continue reading →

Questions about the pragmatic conception of truth have broken out in several quarters, asking in effect, “What conceptions of truth arise most naturally from and are best suited to pragmatic ways of thinking?”  My best thoughts on that score were … Continue reading →