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On being right and avoiding being wrong

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:8. April 2012
  • Post category:Critical thinking / meta-thinking/Epistemology/Psychology
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The two goals: 1) having true beliefs, 2) not having false beliefs may seem to be equivalent or something like that, but they in fact result in different optimal strats.…

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Sentences as secondary truth bearers in a pluralistic proposition theory

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:18. November 2009
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It seems to me that monist sentence theories are too implausible, but might it not nonetheless be the case that some sentences are true/false? In this essay I will discuss…

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Truth bearers

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:18. November 2009
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The truth bearers are the kind of entities that have the property true. It is thought that it is the same kind of entities that have the property false too.…

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Language, truth makers and truth guides

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:24. July 2009
  • Post category:Language
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The issue is what the truth maker is of a certain type (subset), L, of propositions. A proposition belongs to L iff it has the form “X is the correct…

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