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  • The meaning of the word truth extends from honesty, good faith, and sincerity in general, to agreement with fact or reality in particular. The ...
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  • Sojourner Truth (circa. 1797–1883) was a slave who became famous for being an American abolitionist. She was a self-proclaimed Evangelist, ...
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  • A Tautology is a statement that is always true because of its structure—it requires no assumptions or evidence to determine its truth. A tautology ...
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  • " He denied the existence of objective truth and values, replaced reality ... Protagoras wrote at least two books, Truth (or Refutatory Arguments ...
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  • there is no way to assign them consistent truth values. Consider that if ... above sentences refer directly to their own truth values. In fact, the paradox ...
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  • Propositional calculus or Sentential calculus is a calculus that represents the logical structure of truth-functional connectives ("not ...
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  • self-reflexivity and self-sufficiency of truth. That is truth exists by ... inquiries into two ways: “the Way of Truth” and “the Way of Seeming ...
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  • Formal logic encompasses predicate logic, truth-functional logic, ... language; logical equivalence, logical truth, contradictions and tautologies; ...
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  • in either case are intended to be truth-bearers, that is, they are ... to just those strings of symbols that are truth-bearers, being either true ...
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  • of any such a priori and universal truth. Husserl’s turn from his ... valid at a certain point in history. Thus, truth in science lacks necessity ...
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  • dictum: "The seal of God is Emet (Truth)," the word Emet (אמת ... The Hebrew for Truth is Emet. It is composed of three letters: Aleph ...
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  • of all beings and phenomena as the work of truth, thereby explicating the ... Continuing his quest for the truth, he made the risky ocean passage ...
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  • An analytic proposition is one whose truth depends on relations of ideas or concepts, and not on what it says about the world or the way the ...
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  • it is not pessimistic; it is realistic. The truth of suffering need not make ... of our illness, which is the Second Noble Truth: the cause of suffering. ...
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  • :'P implies Q' is always true, regardless of the truth or ... The method consists of assuming the truth of some statement or proposition ...
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  • The Dharmakāya (lit. Truth Body or Reality Body) is a central concept in Mahayana Buddhism forming part of the Trikaya doctrine that was first ...
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  • Methodic doubt is a systematic process of withholding assent regarding the truth or falsehood of all one’s beliefs until they have been demonstrated ...
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  • of an inference does not guarantee the truth of the statements in the ... The concept that involves the truth of the premises of inferences ...
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  • Sojourner Truth (circa. 1797–1883) was a slave who became famous for being an American abolitionist. She was a self-proclaimed Evangelist, ...
    14 KB (2,065 words) - 22:05, 30 January 2023
  • own existential interpretation of ultimate truth in terms of subjectivity ... === Truth === Because Berdyaev’s philosophy was essentially a spiritual ...
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  • Dharma, but take on different forms to expound the truth. ... (the Buddha) was Dharmakaya, the 'Truth-body' or the 'Embodiment ...
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  • logical connective to form a compound sentence. The truth-value of the compound is uniquely determined by the truth-values of the simpler sentences. ...
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