Sentences with phrase «truth by its correspondence»

Instead, Whitehead allows for the «verification» of truth by its correspondence to the actual state of affairs (PR 186 - 191).

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In these ways, the objections to the idea of truth as correspondence can be cleared away, and we can explicitly reaffirm this notion, which we all implicitly affirm in practice, and we can therefore reaffirm that the task of the theologian involves the attempt to formulate the Christian faith in true doctrines, and to defend the truth of these doctrines by showing them to be self - consistent, adequate to the facts of experience, and illuminating.

[12] The ancient definition of truth articulated by St.Thomas as adaequatio rei et intellectus (correspondence of the intellect and the thing) was rejected in favour of a «consistent ordering of the information coming from the senses.»

There are, in the history of philosophy, continually renewed controversies between those who, where the theory of knowledge is concerned, are commonly called realists, and those who are sometimes called idealists, but also constructivists, between those for whom truth resides in the end in correspondence between proposition and fact, and those for whom it is something brought into being by more or less autonomous understanding.

There are, in other words, moments of both «realism» and idealism» in experience, from which follows what we may call a «moderate» or «approximating» correspondence theory of truth, such as that proposed by Charles Hartshorne in reply to Richard Rorty's polemic against the «Mirror of Nature.»

The opposition to the correspondence theory of truth has been the opposition to the idea that correspondence could be anything more than the most suitable tale, with suitability determined by the context in which it is told.

The white of the canvas was of extreme importance to Forge, who began his career as a figurative painter but, after years of frustration, traded realism for the real — a search for «a sense of truth,» as he termed it in the interview, that was inspired by his friendship with Alberto Giacometti and, later, by the «very vivid correspondence with my sense of the world, my sense of reality,» that he found in the work of Robert Rauschenberg.