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From Wikipedia : The English word truth is derived .... perhaps ultimately from PIE (Proto-Indo-European language) *dru- "tree", on the notion of "ste...
May 12, 2017 at 23:06
While I am not disagreeing with you, I would add that the foundations of psychology are themselves logical and reasonable and so psychology cannot be ...
May 11, 2017 at 20:53
Part of the problem is that a person's beliefs effectively define them as a person. So to alter their beliefs can be very challenging; despite any wei...
May 10, 2017 at 21:45
OK, then the truth is subjective and becomes a label to the statement rather than a property of the statement. Also if there is no 'receiver', then th...
May 01, 2017 at 23:17
The problem, arises from the presumption that isolated statements have meaning or truth. Statements are communications, without a sender and receiver ...
May 01, 2017 at 04:42
Not at all! The grounds for your assertion are baseless. The problems you referred to diminish to nothing. What other problems are there? PS Is that w...
April 27, 2017 at 02:29
I think the problems you refer to stem from the presumption that statements can have the property of truth and the presumption that every statement is...
April 26, 2017 at 22:02
OK Fair enough. But how is it possible for a statement to have the 'property of truth'? And how is it possible to determine whether a statement has su...
April 25, 2017 at 22:49
Certainly you could label it as such if you wanted to; but do you have any criteria for doing so?
April 25, 2017 at 08:16
I said that statements can be labelled 'true', I also said that statements cannot have the property of 'truth'. I thought I had pointed out the distin...
April 25, 2017 at 05:59
You are not 'expected' to believe it. It is a communication. And presumably you can understand it because there is a commonality of meaning of the wor...
April 25, 2017 at 02:50
The 'property of truth' does not really exist, it is superfluous to a consistent theory of truth, in the same way that the centrifugal force is superf...
April 24, 2017 at 23:08
21 But in no way do those statements have the property of truth . Great! Now, what is that property? What is what property? Truth? Truth is not a prop...
April 24, 2017 at 22:00
These are not so much true as they have been labelled as 'true', by you. Other people may well agree with you; in which case they would have also labe...
April 24, 2017 at 04:32