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Pravda očima pragmatika
Truth from the Pragmatic Point of View

Author(s): Radim Šíp
Subject(s): Epistemology, Pragmatism
Published by: Filozofický ústav SAV

Summary/Abstract: The paper tries to offer an overall pragmatic perspective on the concepts „knowledge“, „truth“, and „reality“. The perspective should also pick out the socalled metaphysics of „true world“ and show that the metaphysics is created by a long historical, and that's why un-necessary, tradition. This arbitrary tradition is a reason for popularity of the correspondence theory of truth, in spite of the fact that nobody can explain what „correspondence“ means exactly. The author contrasts this metaphysics with the pragmatic metaphysics of „undemarcation of organism and enviroment“. In pragmatic terms, one truth is defined as a function of language, and hence as a function of life.

  • Issue Year: 13/2006
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 451-480
  • Page Count: 30
  • Language: Czech
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