Lexicon of Arguments

Philosophical and Scientific Issues in Dispute
 
[german]


Complaints - Corrections

Table
Concepts
Versus
Sc. Camps
Theses I
Theses II

Concept/Author*  

What is wrong?
Page
Other metadata
Translation
Excerpt or content
Other

Correction: Year / Place / Page
/ /

Correction:
(max 500 charact.)

Your username*
or User-ID

Email address*

The complaint
will not be published.

 
I 31
Truth/Goodman: provided that a world consists of statements, truth may be relevant. But truth cannot be defined or be checked by compliance with "the world". Truth is a docile and an obedient servant, no severe master.
>Reality, >World, >Nature, >Correspondence theory.
I 34
The scientist who assumes he is especially looking for truth deceives himself. He does not care about trivial truths he could grind out.
"The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth": this would be a wrong and paralyzing policy for any world producer. The whole truth would be too much, it is too large, too variable and too burdened by trivial. Nothing but the truth would be too little, for some right versions are not true (they are either false or neither true nor false).
I 147
GoodmanVsTarski: Tarski must be revised:
"'Snow is white' is true according to a version if and only if snow is in accordance with this version of white".
>Truth definition/Tarski, >Disqotation scheme.
I 149
Truth/Goodman: truth is like intelligence exactly what the tests test.
I 146 ff
GoodmanVsPragmatism: then the pragmatist thesis loses at the moment of victory its force: because that truths best meet the purpose of acquiring truths is as empty as it is obvious.
Accuracy/Goodman: Goodman suggests high acceptability as an accuracy scale.
>Acceptability.
---
III 242
The truth of a hypothesis is a matter of fitting. Of fitting to a theory building and the fitting of hypotheses and theory to the existing data and the facts one will encounter.
Truth/Goodman: we should reserve truth for the symbols in sentence form.
---
IV 208
Accuracy/Goodman: accuracy does not seek a formal definition. Accuracy is a matter of fitting and activity.
IV 205
Accuracy and truth sometimes go apart even in statements. Although snow is white, the statement 'snow is white' can sometimes be incorrect.

Found an error? Use our Complaint Form. Perhaps someone forgot to close a bracket? A page number is wrong?
Help us to improve our lexicon.
However, if you are of a different opinion, as regards the validity of the argument, post your own argument beside the contested one.
The correction will be sent to the contributor of the original entry to get his opinion about.