Truth
23 Aug 2020
Truth is:
- Moving from doubt to belief (Peirce)
- Correspondence to reality (Wittg. etc)
- Mutual/pragmatic conception (Habermas)
- Clear and distinctness (≈ logically consistent + intuitively true?) (Descartes)
Scientists aim to:
- Describe nature (common)
- Exert control over nature (Weber etc.)
- Dispell doubt (Peirce)