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  1. truth - How reliable is logic? - Philosophy Stack Exchange

    Jul 23, 2022 · The reasons I think that logic is not enough to find the truth are: I sometimes conclude that something is 100% true, and can be observed easily; as it is based on logic, and …

  2. Newest 'truth' Questions - Philosophy Stack Exchange

    Theories of truth deal with questions such as: what are truths? what makes them true? what is the relation between truths and the things that makes them true? Not to be confused with "what is …

  3. epistemology - What does Nietzsche mean by "there are no facts, …

    I came across this philosophical thought. There are no facts, only interpretations written by Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900). As translated from Notebooks, Summer 1886 – Fall 1887, in …

  4. Truth and actuality - Philosophy Stack Exchange

    Mar 7, 2015 · J. Krishnamurti and Prof. David Bohm discuss the topic of truth and actuality (reality). They touch on reality however in my opinion and understanding don't clarify or define …

  5. Why do we need to know the truth? - Philosophy Stack Exchange

    The first two paragraphs are talking about not necessarily needing to know truth, but the latter two imply that for achieving goals or empowering us to do so, understanding of how the world …

  6. Semantic vs syntactic consequence - Philosophy Stack Exchange

    Apr 16, 2014 · The propositional calculus captures the notion of syntactic consequence, truth-tables the notion of semantic consequence. A routine exercise in introductory logic courses is …

  7. truth - On what grounds a religion can be judged as true?

    Jul 29, 2025 · From an aristotelian perspective—as reconstructed in Mor Segev’s Aristotle on Religion (2017)—evaluating the truth or plausibility of a religion involves several layers beyond …

  8. truth - Quote check: Hannah Arendt on ideology and capability to …

    Jun 28, 2020 · I am searching the source and exact words for a quote from Hannah Arendt that I only vaguely remember: Das Ziel totalitärer Systeme ist es nicht, die Menschen von der …

  9. truth - Why is the Liar a problem? - Philosophy Stack Exchange

    Sep 15, 2024 · Largely in the spirit of a correspondence theory of truth, the liar paradox is like any abstraction that seems to be irrelevant to states of affair in the physical world. After all, a …

  10. Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem: How can truth go deeper than …

    Mar 31, 2022 · Truth, in the sense you are using it here, is a semantic notion. It is not equivalent to proof as you suggest. On the other hand, (mathematical) proof is a syntactic notion. Gödel's …