Deck 6: Truth

Question 1

If you endorse rationalist epistemology you are committed to the pragmatist view of truth.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Bertrand Russell developed a

A) Foundational theory
B) Pragmatic theory
C) Correspondence theory
D) Skeptical theory

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Martin Luther believed that there was only one true meaning of scripture.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

In real life we seem to believe that "truth" means different things.

Question 5

A priori propositions are propositions that we can know to be true without having to observe the world.

Question 6

The Logic school of Indian philosophy endorsed the correspondence theory of truth.

Question 7

Which of the following philosophers proposed a version of the correspondence theory of truth?

A) Rudolf Carnap
B) Clarence I. Lewis
C) Bertrand Russell
D) George Bishop Berkeley

Question 8

Who argued that the truth of an idea depends on the practical difference it makes?

A) Hume
B) Locke
C) James
D) Russell

Question 9

Which of the following logician and philosopher argues that truth is a property of sentences?

A) Alvin Goldman
B) C. I. Lewis
C) Alfred Tarski
D) John Searle

Question 10

We might have difficulty expressing the difference between truth and falsity.

Question 11

Vatsyayana accepted which view of truth?

A) Rationalism
B) Foundationalism
C) Correspondence
D) Pragmatism

Question 12

C. G. Hempel rejected the coherentist view of truth.

Question 13

Rorty is a pragmatist about truth.

Question 14

Dharmakirti accepted a foundationalist view of truth.

Question 15

No Eastern philosophers accept the pragmatic view of truth.

Question 16

There are different versions of the correspondence theory of truth.

Question 17

A key problem with the correspondence theory of truth is that it assumes that we can determine if our beliefs correspond to any external reality.

Question 18

There are only two major theories of truth.

Question 19

Gettier examples assume

A) That people are justified in believing things when they rely on their past experiences
B) That justified true belief constitutes knowledge
C) That people are justified in believing things when they rely on others' testimony
D) That people can only rely on their senses for knowledge

Question 20

One objection to the coherence view of truth is that testing the truth of a belief by reference to other beliefs might be
to test it against false beliefs.

Question 21

What contemporary philosopher argues that truth is whatever has passed society's "procedures of justification"?

A) Richard Rorty
B) Bertrand Russell
C) John Locke
D) Alfred Tarski

Question 22

Which of the following philosophers accepted the coherence theory of truth?

A) Dharmakirti
B) Vatsyayana
C) John Dewey
D) Charles S. Peirce

Question 23

According to the theory of truth a statement is true if it is useful to believe.

A) pragmatic
B) coherence
C) foundationalist
D) correspondence

Question 24

What philosopher argued that we should strive to develop a perfect language in which we could express our ideas with complete clarity?

A) Thomas Aquinas
B) Gottfried Leibniz
C) Wilhelm Dilthey
D) Friedrich Schleiermacher

Question 25

What do facts need to have meaning, according to Carl L. Becker?

A) They need to be situated in a web of circumstances that produced them.
B) They need to be endorsed by expert authorities.
C) They need to be verified.
D) They need to be verifiable.

Question 26

According to the view of scientific truth, scientific theories are literally true or false.

A) pragamatist
B) relativist
C) realist
D) instrumentalist

Question 27

The traditional view of knowledge holds that it is

A) Justified experiential belief.
B) Justified innate belief.
C) Justified true proposition.
D) Justified true belief.

Question 28

Once a contradiction is allowed it is possible to prove that

A) any statement is false.
B) any statement is true.
C) no statements are true.
D) no tautologies are possible.

Question 29

According to the theory of truth a belief is true if it coheres with other beliefs that we regard as true.

Question 30

The view that truth is an agreement between a proposition and some facts in the world is the
____________________ theory of truth.

Question 31

Searle argues that the word was developed so that we could talk about what it is about the real world that makes a proposition true.

Question 32

If I believe that what "truth" is is context­dependent I will likely endorse a

A) pluralist theory of truth.
B) coherence theory of truth.
C) Wittgensteinian theory of truth.
D) correspondence theory of truth.

Question 33

According to the theory of truth, a belief is true if it is, or can be, integrated within the framework of all the other beliefs that we already accept as true.

A) pragmatic
B) foundationalist
C) coherence
D) correspondence

Question 34

If I say that "snow is white is true" only if snow is white, what theory of truth am I likely endorsing?

A) The pragmatist theory.
B) The coherence theory.
C) The corespondance theory.
D) The antirealist theory.

Question 35

The theories of truth discussed in this chapter assume that truth is a(n) concept.

Question 36

Who claimed that we have a desire to know everything that there is to know about the world?

A) Hume
B) Hegel
C) Buddha
D) Blanshard

Question 37

What philosopher wrote: "The world is the totallity of facts, not of things."?

A) Thomas Aquinas
B) Hans-Georg Gadamer
C) Ludwig Wittgenstein
D) Wilhelm Dilthey

Question 38

Propositions that we cannot know unless we observe the world are called empirical, or propositions.

Question 39

Statements or sentences express the contents of our .

Question 40

Bertrand Russell endorsed the theory of truth.

Question 41

Do you think that the pragmatic theory of truth is a theory of truth in the same way as the correspondence and coherence theories are theories of truth? Argue for your view.

Question 42

The realist view of scientific truth is a version of the theory of truth.

Question 43

William James claimed that a true belief was one that we could validate or .

Question 44

Do you believe that knowledge is justified true belief? Why, or why not? In answering this question you should draw on the work of both Gettier and Plato.

Question 45

The conceptual relativist claims that we cannot know the world independently of our .

Question 46

Assume that Berkeley's idealism is correct. Which theory of truth would best fit with such a universe (a) if God did not exist, (b) if God did exist, and had the properties that Berkeley ascribed to Him? Explain your answer fully.

Question 47

Is it possible to give a literal reading of a text, untouched by interpretation? Justify your answer, and apply it to at least one practical issues, such as (a) whether judges "make law" in applying it, or (b) whether religious fundamentalism is internally coherent.

Question 48

What does the claim that all observations are "theory laden" mean? Do you believe that this claim is true? Why, or
why not?