What Is Truth?
Truth” is very simply defined as ________.
What is “telling it like it is”?
True or False: Our beliefs can change a fact if we hold them sincerely enough.
What is False?
A self-defeating statement is one that fails to meet its own ________.
What is “standard”?
The Law of Noncontradiction says contradictory claims cannot both be true at the same time in the same ________.
What is “sense”?
Hume argued claims are meaningful only if they are abstract reasoning (math/definitions) OR verifiable by the ________.
What are “the five senses”?
Another definition of truth: “that which ________ its object.”
What is “corresponds to”?
Truth is ________: if something is true, it’s true in every culture.
What is “transcultural”?
Identify why this is self-defeating: “I can’t speak a word in English.”
What is “It contradicts itself because it’s spoken in English”?
In the “expecting a baby” example, if the wife says yes and the husband says no, you conclude ________ is wrong or confused.
What is “someone”?
Hume said metaphysical claims beyond the physical should not be believed because they’re ________.
What is “meaningless”?
If something is true, it’s true for all people, at all times, and in all places—truth is ________.
What is “absolute (not relative)”?
Truth is unchanging even though our ________ about truth can change.
What are “beliefs”?
True or False: Saying “there is no truth” is logically consistent.
What is False? (It’s self-defeating.)
Apply noncontradiction: Either God exists or God ________.
What is “does not exist”?
Kant said you never know the “thing-in-itself”; you only know the ________ shaped by mind/senses.
What is “phenomena”?
Truth claims are described as “absolute, ________, and exclusive.”
What is “narrow”?
First principles are self-evident starting points with nothing ________ them.
What is “behind”?
Saying “logic doesn’t apply to reality” is self-defeating because the speaker must use ________ to argue it.
What is “logic”?
Most inductive conclusions are not 100% ________ because we haven’t observed everything.
What is “certain”?
Kant’s error (like Hume’s) is that he ________ his own premise by claiming knowledge while denying knowledge.
What is “contradicts”?
“Truth exists independent of anyone’s knowledge of it,” meaning truth is ________, not invented.
What is “discovered”?
Finish the idea: Truth is “that which describes an actual ________ of affairs.”
What is “state”?
The slides compare denying logic to using arithmetic to prove arithmetic can’t be ________.
What is “trusted”?
A medieval Muslim philosopher mentioned in the slides as addressing denial of noncontradiction
Who is Avicenna?
The method of drawing general conclusions from repeated observations is called ________.
Correct Response: What is “induction”?