عنوان

Likeness to Truth

شابک

9400946589

شابک

9401085706

شابک

9789400946583

شابک

9789401085700

شماره

b593381

عنوان اصلي

Likeness to Truth

نام عام مواد

[Book]

نام نخستين پديدآور

by Graham Oddie.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Dordrecht

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Springer Netherlands

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

1986

نام خاص و کميت اثر

(236 pages)

عنوان فروست

University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, A Series of Books in Philosophy of Science, Methodology, Epistemology, Logic, History of Science, and Related Fields, 30.

متن يادداشت

One: Truth and Closeness to Truth --; 1.1 The problem of truthlikeness --; 1.2 Explications and intuitions --; 1.3 Some adequacy conditions --; Notes --; Two: Popper on Truthlikeness --; 2.1 Truthlikeness in Popper's methodology --; 2.2 Truthlikeness by truth content and falsity content --; 2.3 Measuring truth content and falsity content --; Notes --; Three: Distance in Logical Space --; 3.1 Conceptual frameworks and possible worlds --; 3.2 Distance between propositions --; 3.3 Measuring the symmetric difference --; 3.4 Truthlikeness for a propositional framework --; 3.5 Truthlikeness by similarity spheres --; Notes --; Four: Truthlikeness by Distributive Normal Forms --; 4.1 Languages and pictures --; 4.2 Worlds and interpretations --; 4.3 Constituents in a first-order language --; 4.4 The symmetric difference on constituents --; 4.5 The propositional measure extended --; Notes --; Five: Beyond First-Order Truthlikeness --; 5.1 Questions, answers, and propositional distance again --; 5.2 Infinitely deep theories and ultimate questions --; 5.3 Higher-order frameworks --; 5.4 Verisimilitude and legisimilitude --; Notes --; Six: Truthlikeness and Translation --; 6.1 Invariance under translation --; 6.2 The identity of states of affairs --; 6.3 Coactualisation and structure --; 6.4 Two criticisms of the structure argument --; 6.5 Numerical accuracy, confirmation and disconfirmation --; 6.6 Privileged properties --; Notes --; Seven: Truthlikeness, Content, and Utility --; 7.1 The content condition --; 7.2 The attractions of brute strength --; 7.3 Epistemic utilities --; 7.4 Accuracy and action: a conjecture --; Notes --; 8.1 First-order languages and their interpretations --; 8.2 Higher-order languages --; 8.3 Examples J and K formalized --; 8.4 First-order normal forms --; 8.5 Permutative normal forms --; 8.6 The distance between constituents --; Notes --; References.

متن يادداشت

The concept of likeness to truth, like that of truth itself, is fundamental to a realist conception of inquiry. To demonstrate this we need only make two rather modest aim of an inquiry, as an inquiry, is realist assumptions: the truth doctrine (that the the truth of some matter) and the progress doctrine (that one false theory may realise this aim better than another). Together these yield the conclusion that a false theory may be more truthlike, or closer to the truth, than another. It is the aim of this book to give a rigorous philosophical analysis of the concept of likeness to truth, and to examine the consequences, some of them no doubt surprising to those who have been unduly impressed by the (admittedly important) true/false dichotomy. Truthlikeness is not only a requirement of a particular philosophical outlook, it is as deeply embedded in common sense as the concept of truth. Everyone seems to be capable of grading various propositions, in different (hypothetical) situations, according to their closeness to the truth in those situations. And (if my experience is anything to go by) there is remarkable unanimity on these pretheoretical judge ments. This is not proof that there is a single coherent concept underlying these judgements. The whole point of engaging in philosophical analysis is to make this claim plausible.

موضوع مستند نشده

Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.

موضوع مستند نشده

Logic.

موضوع مستند نشده

Philosophy (General)

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

by Graham Oddie.

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Graham Oddie

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y