Prospects for the Development of a Universal Theory of Truth

DOI

10.2991/cesses-18.2018.177How to use a DOI?

Keywords

truth; paradoxical self-reference; concepts of truth; universal concept of truth; truth criteria; empirical verification

Abstract

Some philosophers are unjustified in their attempts to remove the category of truth from philosophy and science and to replace it with the concepts of sense, validity, and plausibility. This paper considers classical and non-classical concepts of truth. The paper aims to substantiate the hypothesis about the possibility of synthesizing rational features of existing concepts and creating a universal (general) theory of truth. This theory can be built on the concept of correspondence, since only here the essence of truth is defined as knowledge corresponding to reality. Other concepts reflect, with varying degrees of accuracy, different characteristics of true knowledge, the conditions for its acquisition, justification, acceptance in the scientific community, functioning, use, and in some cases equate the essence of truth with its criterion. Five criteria of truth are distinguished: empirical confirmation (leading criterion); logical provability; heuristicity of hypotheses; simplicity; and beauty.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Nikolay N. Gubanov
AU  - Nikolay I. Gubanov
AU  - Lyudmila Rokotyanskaya
PY  - 2018/11
DA  - 2018/11
TI  - Prospects for the Development of a Universal Theory of Truth
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Ecological Studies (CESSES 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 801
EP  - 805
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/cesses-18.2018.177
DO  - 10.2991/cesses-18.2018.177
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