The options once appeared to be:

• Objective truth is what is revealed to us by a combination of rationality and empirical evidence, but only empirical evidence that we could detach from the particular observer. The Subject of knowledge is a single unified, disembodied subject of Reason of which we partake to the extent that we cogitate in lock step ( Read more... )

I've had the impression of being constantly in motion for over a week now--no time to rest and reflect. This is a healthy change for me, I think, since a static life often feels like no life at all. However, they also say that the unexamined life is not worth living either--I need a balance. Right now, I'm feeling exhausted.
( Three people. Me being judgmental )

Ok, first I want to say that there is absolutely no justification for how much I post on this thing. I think it's an indication that I am very lonely or very sick or very full of myself or something ( Read more... )

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( More mostly Nietzsche-related blather )

So for now I'll guess I'll try taking it for granted that we can define a type of truth by first selecting a task (which could amount to just a set of criteria) and then determining which concepts, beliefs, or whole-world-mental-models perform best at it.

The task I like best is something like "accurately, powerfully, and ( Read more... )

"What is truth?" said jesting Pilate, but would not stay. But before he could go, somebody shouted an answer at him that made perfect sense. And Pilate realized that he had just got totally served.

Invented Usage is taking a the post-structuralist stance that truth can only be found in linguistic convention. I'm up in arms, of course. If you're at all curious what I keep babbling about when I start talk about philosophy of science overcoming postmodern critiques, then this is where I'll be articulating those views. I really don't know if ( Read more... )

[In one of the simple and common models of epistemology] one trades in one's blind faith for scientific doubt out of risk aversion: the options are, first, foolish adherence to the false with the slightest chance of holding, purely by accident, the Truth, and, second, a tolerable purgatory where one is always detached from but always slowly ( Read more... )

Wikipedia article:
Consensus Theory of Truth

"The consensus theory, invented by Charles Sanders Peirce sees truth as something agreed upon by some specified group, such as all competent investigators. " (from Wikipedia, "Truth"Like pragmatism, upon first reading this definition, my first reaction was one of immediate rejection, but upon second and ( Read more... )