Belief And Truth

Author : D. M. Armstrong
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1973-02-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521087066

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Belief, Truth and Knowledge by D. M. Armstrong Pdf

A wide-ranging study of the central concepts in epistemology - belief, truth and knowledge. Professor Armstrong offers a dispositional account of general beliefs and of knowledge of general propositions. Belief about particular matters of fact are described as structures in the mind of the believer which represent or 'map' reality, while general beliefs are dispositions to extend the 'map' or introduce casual relations between portions of the map according to general rules. 'Knowledge' denotes the reliability of such beliefs as representations of reality. Within this framework Professor Armstrong offers a distinctive account of many of the main questions in general epistemology - the relations between beliefs and language, the notions of proposition, concept and idea, the analysis of truth, the varieties of knowledge, and the way in which beleifs and knowledge are supported by reasons. The book as a whole if offered as a contribution to a naturalistic account of man.

Author : Katja Maria Vogt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199916818

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Belief and Truth by Katja Maria Vogt Pdf

Belief and Truth: A Skeptic Reading of Plato explores a Socratic intuition about belief, doxa — belief is "shameful." In aiming for knowledge, one must aim to get rid of beliefs. Vogt shows how deeply this proposal differs from contemporary views, but that it nevertheless speaks to intuitions we are likely to share with Plato, ancient skeptics, and Stoic epistemologists.

Author : David Malet Armstrong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Belief and doubt
ISBN : 0521087066

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Belief, Truth and Knowledge by David Malet Armstrong Pdf

A wide-ranging study of the central concepts in epistemology - belief, truth and knowledge. Professor Armstrong offers a dispositional account of general beliefs and of knowledge of general propositions. Belief about particular matters of fact are described as structures in the mind of the believer which represent or 'map' reality, while general beliefs are dispositions to extend the 'map' or introduce casual relations between portions of the map according to general rules. 'Knowledge' denotes the reliability of such beliefs as representations of reality. Within this framework Professor Armstrong offers a distinctive account of many of the main questions in general epistemology - the relations between beliefs and language, the notions of proposition, concept and idea, the analysis of truth, the varieties of knowledge, and the way in which beleifs and knowledge are supported by reasons. The book as a whole if offered as a contribution to a naturalistic account of man.

Author : Brian Hebblethwaite
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1988-04-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0521359759

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The Ocean of Truth by Brian Hebblethwaite Pdf

Spirited defense of the objective reality of God is maintained in an interpretation of the impact of modernism on Christianity that is contrary to that advanced by Don Cupitt in The Sea of Faith.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:499846433

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What is Truth? by Anonim Pdf

Author : Timothy Chan,Timothy Hoo Wai Chan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199672134

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The Aim of Belief by Timothy Chan,Timothy Hoo Wai Chan Pdf

The Aim of Belief is the first book devoted to the question: 'what is belief?' Eleven newly commissioned essays by leading authors reflect the state of the art and further advance the current debate. The book will be key reading for researchers working on philosophy of mind and action, epistemology, and meta-ethics.

Author : James Douglas (of Cavers.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Sermons
ISBN : BL:A0023471977

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The True Belief the Belief of the Truth by James Douglas (of Cavers.) Pdf

Author : Donald Wiebe
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110823431

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Religion and Truth by Donald Wiebe Pdf

Since its founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the series publishes volumes that map the state of the art and the history of the discipline.

Author : Robert Lawrence Kuhn
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028483415

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Closer to Truth by Robert Lawrence Kuhn Pdf

Fifty internationally renowned scientists and scholars challenge all manner of current belief, from general consciousness to the Big Bang, in this official companion volume to the groundbreaking new PBS series.

Author : Bruce Milne
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830866335

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Know the Truth by Bruce Milne Pdf

"You will know the truth," said Jesus, "and the truth will set you free." Christians have already begun to know God and his truth. This handbook assists in that liberating knowledge, as it opens up the great themes of God's Word and shows how they fit together. Each chapter deals with one aspect of biblical truth and encourages further study with Scripture references to look up, questions for discussion, and books for additional reading. The main sections conclude with practical reflection on how the Bible's teaching challenges us and moves us to adore the living God. This new edition of Bruce Milne's widely appreciated Know the Truth has been extensively revised and updated to ensure its ongoing relevance and value as an excellent introduction to Christian doctrine.

Author : Curtis L. Hancock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1315480131

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Truth and Religious Belief by Curtis L. Hancock Pdf

Author : Lori Jakiela
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1938769422

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Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe by Lori Jakiela Pdf

After her adoptive mother's death, Lori Jakiela, at the age of forty, begins to seek the identity of her birth parents. In the midst of this loss, Jakiela also finds herself with a need to uncover her family's medical history to gather answers for her daughter's newly revealed medical ailments. This memoir brings together these parallel searches while chronicling intergenerational questions of family. Through her work, Jakiela examines both the lives we are born with and the lives we create for ourselves. Desires for emotional resolution comingle with concerns of medical inheritance and loss in this honest, humorous, and heartbreaking memoir. -Amazon.

Author : Thomas F. Gieryn
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226562001

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Truth-Spots by Thomas F. Gieryn Pdf

We may not realize it, but truth and place are inextricably linked. For ancient Greeks, temples and statues clustered on the side of Mount Parnassus affirmed their belief that predictions from the oracle at Delphi were accurate. The trust we have in Thoreau’s wisdom depends in part on how skillfully he made Walden Pond into a perfect place for discerning timeless truths about the universe. Courthouses and laboratories are designed and built to exacting specifications so that their architectural conditions legitimate the rendering of justice and discovery of natural fact. The on-site commemoration of the struggle for civil rights—Seneca, Selma, and Stonewall—reminds people of slow but significant political progress and of unfinished business. What do all these places have in common? Thomas F. Gieryn calls these locations “truth-spots,” places that lend credibility to beliefs and claims about natural and social reality, about the past and future, and about identity and the transcendent. In Truth-Spots, Gieryn gives readers an elegant, rigorous rendering of the provenance of ideas, uncovering the geographic location where they are found or made, a spot built up with material stuff and endowed with cultural meaning and value. These kinds of places—including botanical gardens, naturalists’ field-sites, Henry Ford’s open-air historical museum, and churches and chapels along the pilgrimage way to Santiago de Compostela in Spain—would seem at first to have little in common. But each is a truth-spot, a place that makes people believe. Truth may well be the daughter of time, Gieryn argues, but it is also the son of place.

Author : Curtis L. Hancock,Brendan Sweetman
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Law
ISBN : 1563248530

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Truth and Religious Belief by Curtis L. Hancock,Brendan Sweetman Pdf

This book contains a thorough and balanced series of dialogues introducing key topics in philosophy of religion, such as: the existence and nature of God, the problem of evil, religious pluralism, the nature of religious experience, immortality, and the meaning of life. A realistic cast of characters in a natural setting engages in a series of thought-provoking conversations; the dialogue format of these conversations captures typical student attitudes and questions concerning religious belief; allows comparison of important themes throughout the dialogues; encourages the interjection of insights, observations, questions, and objections; and introduces related points when they would naturally arise, instead of relegating them to a later chapter. As well as presenting a detailed and probing discussion, each dialogue includes a list of key terms, a set of study questions, and a bibliography - all of which make this an excellent text for courses in philosophy of religion and introductory philosophy classes.

Author : Finlay Malcolm,Michael Scott
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000629477

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A Philosophy of Faith by Finlay Malcolm,Michael Scott Pdf

Faith occupies an important place in human lives. It can be directed towards God, friends, political systems and sports teams, and is said to help people through crises and to motivate people to achieve life goals. But what is faith? Philosophers and theologians have, for centuries, been concerned with questions about the rationality of faith, but more recently, have focussed on what kind of psychological attitude faith is. The authors of this book bring together, for the first time, the different elements of this recent debate, staking out the different positions and arguments, and defending a novel ‘true grit’ theory of faith, from which the rationality and language of faith are addressed from a fresh perspective. The book engages with a range of questions about the nature of faith, including: Does faith require belief? Is faith motivational? What is the relationship between faith, trust and hope? Do expressions of faith aim at the truth? And, in what sense is faith resilient? The authors defend a distinctive conception of faith involving resistance to psychological, practical and epistemic challenges, from which a novel account of the psychology and epistemology of faith is developed. The treatment of the topic draws extensively on the philosophy of mind, language and religion, and provides a map of this exciting field of study for newcomers to the philosophy of faith. A Philosophy of Faith will appeal to researchers and advanced students in philosophy of religion, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language and epistemology who are interested in the topic of faith.