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• BELIEF
• STATEMENT
• SENTENCE
What makes knowing the
truth so important in life?
KINDS OF TRUTH
1. Question of whether the truth of a
belief or statement is established or
arrived at by means of sense experience
CORRESPONDENCE
COHERENCE
PRAGMATIC THEORIES
THE GENERAL METHOD OF
CORRESPONDENCE
Observation
Reasoning
Intuition
Mystical experience
Appeal to authority
In sum, to know whether
statement/beliefs are true is to
generally examine whether or not they
correspond to facts, cohere with the
rules of a system, and result in
beneficial consequences.
CONDITIONS OF KNOWLEDGE
Kinds of knowledge
• Belief
• Truth
• justification
The Condition of
Justification
Types of Disagreement
Disagreement in belief
Disagreement in attitude
Merely verbal disagreements
Reasoning and Fallacies
Reasoning
• Deducting reasoning
• Inductive reasoning
Deductive Reasoning