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  2. Correspondence theory of truth - Wikipedia

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    Correspondence theory is a traditional model which goes back at least to some of the ancient Greek philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle. [2] [3] This class of theories holds that the truth or the falsity of a representation is determined solely by how it relates to a reality; that is, by whether it accurately describes that reality.

  3. J. L. Austin - Wikipedia

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    Chapters 5 and 6 study the correspondence theory, where a statement is true when it corresponds to a fact. Chapters 6 and 10 concern the doctrine of speech acts. Chapters 8, 9, and 12 reflect on the problems that language encounters in discussing actions and considering the cases of excuses, accusations, and freedom.

  4. Baruch Spinoza - Wikipedia

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    Philosophy Today Archived 7 August 2020 at the Wayback Machine, Vol. 53, No. 4, Winter 2009 Archived 7 August 2020 at the Wayback Machine. Van den Ven, Jeroen. Printing Spinoza: A Descriptive Bibliography of the Works Published in the Seventeenth Century. Leiden 2022. _____. Documenting Spinoza: A Biographical History of his Life and Time ...

  5. Thomism - Wikipedia

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    Nonetheless, a Thomistic theory of knowledge can be derived from a mixture of Aquinas' logical, psychological, metaphysical, and even Theological doctrines. Aquinas' thought is an instance of the correspondence theory of truth, which says that something is true "when it conforms to the external reality."

  6. Jan Łukasiewicz - Wikipedia

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    At the urging of the Armenian community in Poland, his remains were repatriated to Poland 66 years later. He was reburied on 22 November 2022 in Warsaw's Old Powązki Cemetery. [8] From October to December 2022, the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin hosted an exhibition on his life and work. [9]

  7. Correspondence - Wikipedia

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    1:1 correspondence, an older name for a bijection; Multivalued function; Correspondence (algebraic geometry), between two algebraic varieties; Corresponding sides and corresponding angles, between two polygons; Correspondence (category theory), the opposite of a profunctor; Correspondence (von Neumann algebra) or bimodule, a type of Hilbert space

  8. Comparative method - Wikipedia

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    The aim of the comparative method is to highlight and interpret systematic phonological and semantic correspondences between two or more attested languages.If those correspondences cannot be rationally explained as the result of linguistic universals or language contact (borrowings, areal influence, etc.), and if they are sufficiently numerous, regular, and systematic that they cannot be ...

  9. Richard Rorty - Wikipedia

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    Richard McKay Rorty (October 4, 1931 – June 8, 2007) was an American philosopher and historian of ideas.Educated at the University of Chicago and Yale University, Rorty's academic career included appointments as the Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, the Kenan Professor of Humanities at the University of Virginia, and as a professor of comparative literature at Stanford ...