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Pragmatic Theory of Truth Quote?
« on: June 13, 2010, 11:58:37 am »
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By the pragmatic theory of truth:

"Truth is that concordance of an abstract statement with the ideal limit towards which endless investigation would tend to bring scientific belief, which concordance the abstract statement may possess by virtue of the confession of its inaccuracy and one-sidedness, and this confession is an essential ingredient of truth."

Does anyone know what this means in layman's terms? Thanks. :)
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Re: Pragmatic Theory of Truth Quote?
« Reply #1 on: June 13, 2010, 08:22:04 pm »
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I think it's saying that 'truth' is an ideal rather than something we can hope to achieve. Additionally, if we could work at finding truth for an infinite amount of time, we eventually would. So, we can get closer and closer to truth without ever actually reaching it.

One part of reaching the truth is exposing those who are trying to find it as biased (if only slightly). And, being aware of our own biases gets us closer to the truth. Part of the process of getting closer to the truth involves exposing our biases.
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