The Nature of Truth - Epistemology | WIRELESS PHILOSOPHY

In this Wireless Philosophy video, Joshua Rasmussen (Azusa Pacific University) explores 5 theories of the nature of truth.

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[rossedwards]

I wish these videos were more in depth! There are some really interesting ideas in here but I feel like we've barely scratch the surface. Even having links to further reading under the video description would be much appreciated!

[nervous]

I really think certain part of philosophy is way more effective to solve psychological problem than psychology itself, especially those who are confused about life, society, relationship, self worth etc. Because it teaches you to ask the *right* question, which is overly underappreciated in today's society.

[crissrodriguez]

I don't speak English but I'm watching this video because i don't found this kind of video in Spanish, thank you, also when I watch this, I can improve my English

[chowturtlezpabus]

The more I learn about truth the more I don't understand it

[Human_Evolution-]

It's also important to note that there are as many versions as these theories of Truth as there are philosophers. The main guidelines may 'cohere' but there is a lot of fuzziness around the edges, like most things.

For whatever it is worth I like pragmatism for most things. so when I say most things I think different theories of Truth work in different areas like maths, logic, love, personal relationships, passion Etc.

[Inerize]

"All truth passes through three stages: First it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed and third it is accepted as being self-evident."

Great video! Epistemology is a deep subject and you did a great job explaining it.

[mohamedsaaid]

Thank you so much for new ideas and for the effort to make this vids, but it would be more academic and objective if you added the sources and other links for further readings...

[jordanrader]

Truth is one of the few things immune to decay
It is permanent
It can wait until next time and not break down

[walmenreis]

'The cat is on the mat' is indeed a proposition that needs not being clearer or ostensible as to it conveying a truth, so that adding to it the expression 'it is true' is just redundant. And it is true because it corresponds to or, better still, it refers to the idea acquired through the senses, of there being a cat on the mat. So, the written or spoken proposition - which is also an idea - is true as it expresses the idea it refers to. Truth can only be a relation, and one between ideas or propositions (which are basically the same thing), while 'being real' is a label - and an idea as well - loosely attached or added to other ideas to indicate, for instance, that their source wasn't a dream, a hallucination or still a remembrance. By the way, we only have ideas or propositions at our grasp, like, for instance, of perceiving no matter what, of doing things like driving, eating, building, playing, etc. And though to most of them we attach the 'this-is-real' label, there's no way for us to know for sure that we are actually having those experiences. It seems that there's no other thing we can be sure we are doing than to think, and that there's no better or saner thing to do in such a circumstance than trying to be coherent.

[ostihpem]

Truth is valueable because if something is true then you can rely on it and do actions that will pay off. Very simple strategy. Therefore the correspondence theory is the best theory of truth, because if you have truth there, you are on the safe side while in all the other theories you can have truth but still get disappointed, i.e. you can't rely on it.

[daman]

Holy freak I just started the video but I'm so hyped Josh Rasmussen is on here I did not expect that!

[michaeldayton]

The challenge proposed at the video's end (To find "the simplest theory of truth that accounts for all the cases has the best chance of being true") is essentially Occam's razor, no?

[yomaze]

Someone let the philosophers have way too much coffee again, haha. JK I know this is a whole area of study that stretches back to the Greeks. Nice short introduction to the topic. You've got my like :-)

[nateharrison]

I can't believe it can be this good

[RyanFrizzell]

Great. More people ought to practice the truth sometimes.

[RodrigoBarbosaBR]

What about phenomenology and hermeneutics? Breaking with the Subject-Object relation seems to be a tendency on more contemporaneous philosophy, from what I can tell, moving toward an Subject-Subject relation.

[PrincePloppy]

Your explanation at the end is circular. But over all not a bad video.

[Doubledex]

Truth is simply information that aligns with objective reality. It's not that complicated.

[DocEonChannel]

So you favor coherentism then? I say that because both the examples you give at the end (and the person portrayed) fit that theory with the greatest ease.

[somedude]

Deflationism isnt the "removal of truth". It simply the recognition that the truth = what is. Therefore if you are making a claim about what is, it is redundant and unnessecary to repeat yourself.