DOES TRUTH HAVE DEGREES? BRADLEY'S DOCTRINE OF DEGREES OF TRUTH

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作者
Zhang, Ligeng [1 ]
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[1] Beijing Normal Univ, Beijing, Peoples R China
关键词
Bradley; the Identity Theory of Truth; Doctrine of Degrees; of Truth;
D O I
10.5840/idstudies2023102154
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B [哲学、宗教];
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01 ; 0101 ;
摘要
What is the nature of truth? This question has been answered by philosophers in quite different ways, while F. H. Bradley asserts that truths have degrees and that no proposition can be stated to be simply true or false. In this paper, I briefly illustrate what he calls the doctrine of degrees of truth and try to address the problems it entails. I first explain what he means by truth and error/falsehood (he does not make a clear distinction between the two terms); then, I concentrate on his criticisms of three theories of truth, followed by a discussion of his own identity theory of truth. I will be focusing on his doctrine of the degrees of truth and highlight its difficulties. I show that his theory faces some insurmountable difficulties, and it should be motivated by a particular form of monism that he insisted on, saying existence monism.
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