See Truth Merge truth date September 2010 Falsity from Latin falsitas or falsehood is a perversion of truth originating in the deceitfulness of one party, and culminating in the damage of another party. Falsity is also a measure of the quality or extent of the falseness of something, while a falsehood may also mean simply an incorrect false statement, independent of any intention to deceive. In the Frege Church ontology , truth is the denotation of a true proposition, while falsity is the denotation of false propositions. In esthetics, falsity is ugly, and truth is beautiful. In existentialism, falsity is usually a thing to be avoided, and is not desired. ref Why I AM Not A Christian , Bertrand Russell ref Examples Counterfeiting money, or attempting to coin genuine legal tender without due authorization tampering with wills, Codicil will codicils , or such like legal instruments prying into the correspondence of others to their prejudice using false weights and measures, adulterating merchandise, so as to render saleable what purchasers would otherwise never buy, or so as to derive larger profits from goods otherwise marketable only at lower figures bribing judges, suborning witnesses advancing false testimony manufacturing spurious seals forgery forging signatures padding accounts interpolating the texts of legal enactments and sharing in the pretended birth of supposititious offspring are among the chief forms which this crime assumes. See also Deception Fraud Lie References reflist External links Wiktionary falsity falsehood http www.newadvent.org cathen 05781a.htm Catholic Encyclopedia Falsity Catholic Category Civil law common law Category Canon law Category Deception Law term stub yi ... more details
Ghaflah is the Arabic word for negligence and heedlessness . In an Islamic context, it is the sin of forgetting Allah and one s divine origins, or being indifferent of these. It is also the sin of purposeful misguiding, misleading or the deceiving of another, usually through falsity or by failiure of full disclosure, through concealment, which keeps another in ignorance and heedlessness . External links http www.ummah.net islam mba articles ghaflah.htm Ghaflah The Sickness of Modern Man Category Islamic terms Category Arabic words and phrases Islam stub ... more details
wiktionary pseudo For the novel with the original title Pseudo Hocus Bogus The prefix pseudo from Greek lying, false is used to mark something as falsity false , fraud ulent, or pretending to be something it is not. Biology prefix In biology and botany taxonomy the prefix pseudo or pseud can indicate a species with a visual similarity to another genus . An example is the Iris species Iris pseudacorus , by having leaves similar to those of Acorus calamus in the Acorus genus, having pseud acorus false acorus in its botanical name . See also lookfrom pseudo Falsehood Pseudorealism Deception Mimicry Pseudo.com Pseudo Blood of Our Own Category Prefixes Category Greek loanwords Category Biology prefixes and suffixes da Pseudo nl Pseudo sk Pseudo ... more details
Infobox Album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name We Are Gathered Here Today... Type studio Artist Glass Casket Cover Glasscasket.jpg Released February 10, 2004 Recorded The Basement Genre Deathcore Length 37 56 Label Abacus Recordings Producer Jamie King Reviews Allmusic Rating 3.5 5 Allmusic class album id we are gathered here today 2004 r677366 review pure url yes link Punknews.org Rating 3.5 5 http www.punknews.org review 2660 link Last album To Cherish A Falsity To Cherish A Falsity demo br 2002 This album We Are Gathered Here Today br 2004 Next album A Desperate Man s Diary br 2006 We Are Gathered Here Today is the first album by Glass Casket . Joe Musten of Beloved band Beloved Solid State Records appears on track seven. Track listing Pencil Lead Syringe 4 39 And So It Was Said 4 26 Fisted and Forgotten 3 58 Fearfully And Wonderfully Made 4 58 Cellar Door 0 59 Chew Your Fingers 3 11 Scarlet Paint and Gasoline 3 03 In Between the Sheets 5 05 A Gray A.M. You Will Never Get to See 7 33 Credits Adam Cody Vocals Ian Tuten Guitar Dustie Waring Guitar Sid Menon Bass Blake Richardson Drums Additional credits Alan Douches Mastering http www.emptydesign.net Empty Design Coalition Layout & Art Wes Richardson Merchandise Design Details The album was reissued March 21, 2006 with new packaging, art, and additional footage featuring the unedited video of In Between the Sheets that MTV would not air. Category Glass Casket albums Category 2004 debut albums 2000s death metal album stub 2000s metalcore album stub pt We Are Gathered Here Today ... more details
Multiple issues orphan January 2011 no footnotes May 2011 The Philadelphia newspaper accused Maurice S. Hepps of being linked to organized crime and capitalizing on that connection to influence State legislature United States state legislature through articles that were published in the Philadelphia newspaper. Hepps is the principal stockholder of a corporation that has a chain of stores selling beer , soft drink s, and snack s. The Philadelphia Inquirer published a series of articles on Hepps being linked to organized crime which used some of those links to influence the State s governmental processes. Hepps brought a defamation suit into a Pennsylvania state court against Philadelphia Newspapers Inc. and the authors of the articles. The Pennsylvania statute gave The Philadelphia Newspaper Inc. the Legal burden of proof burden of proof on the question of truth or falsity. The jury ruled in favor of the Philadelphia Newspaper Inc. The case was remanded for a new trial. The United States Supreme Court Supreme Court favored Hepps on Monday, April 21, 1986 and held that the newspaper was obligated to prove its accusations true. In a 5 4 decision the Supreme Court decided that libel plaintiff s must shoulder the burden of proving falsity, when the article in question relates to public concern. The newspaper published an article of public concern about a private figure the private figure cannot recover damages without showing the statements are false. This court case dealt with the issues of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution first amendment , libel, and defamation. References See http en.wikipedia.org wiki Wikipedia Footnotes on how to create references using ref ref tags which will then appear here automatically Reflist External links http www.oyez.org cases 1980 1989 1985 1985 84 1491 http www.bc.edu bc org avp cas comm free speech hepps.html http supreme.justia.com us 475 767 http lawschool.courtroomview.com acf cases 9242 philadelphia newspapers v ... more details
wiktionary false falsehood False or falsehood may refer to False logic Lie or falsehood, a type of deception in the form of an untruthful statement Falsity or falsehood, in law, deceitfulness by one party that results in damage to another Falsies padding for use in a brassiere to create the appearance of larger breasts FALSE , a programming language false Unix , a Unix command False album False album , an album by Gorefest Matthew Dear or False, American DJ and producer Falsehood film Falsehood film , a 2001 American short film starring Marie Noelle Marquis See also columns list 2 False accusations False advertising False alarm False arrest False confession False consciousness False conviction False dilemma False document False ending False etymology False flag False friend False gharial False hero False imprisonment False memory False neurotransmitter False pregnancy False prophet False self False start Truth disambig de False it Falso scn False ... more details
A multiple conclusion logic is one in which logical consequence is a relation mathematics relation , math vdash math , between two Set mathematics sets of sentence mathematical logic sentences or Proposition mathematics proposition s . math Gamma vdash Delta math is typically interpreted as meaning that whenever each element of math Gamma math is true, some element of math Delta math is true and whenever each element of math Delta math is false, some element of math Gamma math is false. This form of logic was developed in the 1970s by D. J. Shoesmith and Timothy Smiley ref D. J. Shoesmith and T. J. Smiley, Multiple Conclusion Logic , Cambridge University Press, 1978 ref but has not been widely adopted. Some logician s favor a multiple conclusion consequence relation over the more traditional single conclusion relation on the grounds that the latter is asymmetry asymmetric in the informal, non mathematical sense and favors truth over falsity or assertion over denial . See also Sequent calculus References references Category Logic logic stub ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Illness or Modern Women Lang de Krankheit oder Moderne Frauen is a play by the Austrian playwright Elfriede Jelinek . It was written in 1984 and published by Prometh Verlag in 1987 with an afterword by Regine Friedrich. The play deals with Jelinek s usual play on sexual power politics by focusing attention on a couple and what happens to the dynamics of their relationship when change occurs. The change, in this case, is when Carmilla, a housewife, becomes a vampire through her friend Emily. This only occurs after the birth of her daughter. She then leaves her husband, Dr. Benno Hundekoffer, and establishes a lesbian relationship with Emily. Like the rest of Jelinek s body of work, Krankheit offers a vitriolic and satirical view of the falsity and susceptibility concerning relationships. For an analysis of the lesbianism and gender play in the piece, see Leanne Dawson s article, The Transe Femme in Elfriede Jelinek s Krankheit oder Moderne Frauen , in Smith Prei, Carrie, and Politis, Cordula eds. Germanistik in Ireland Sexual Textual Border Crossings Lesbian Identity in German Literature, Film and Culture, November 2010. Elfriede Jelinek DEFAULTSORT Illness Or Modern Women Category Austrian plays Category 1984 plays 1980s play stub ... more details
Expand further date March 2012 About Artistic interpretation other types of interpretation Interpretation disambiguation Interpretation An interpretation in philosophy of art , is an explanation of the meaning of some work of art . An interpretation expresses an understanding of a work of art, a poem, performance, or piece of literature. Aims of interpretation One or many There are many different theories of interpretation. On the one hand, there are an infinite number of interpretations for any given piece of art, any one of which may be considered valid. Citation needed date May 2009 However, it may also be claimed that there really is only one valid interpretation for any given piece of art. The aesthetic theory that people approach art with different aims is called pluralism. People s interpretations of art may be evaluated relative to these aims. The aim of some of these interpretations is such that they may be said to be true or false and the aim of others do not lend themselves to designating truth or falsity to art. Intended interpretation Among those theories which permit for interpretations being named as valid or invalid, are ones which attempt to identify what the artist is trying to accomplish and interpret the art in terms of whether or not the artist has succeeded. In this view there is a single correct interpretation consistent with the artists intention for any given art work. See also Against Interpretation Representation arts References Michael Krausz , Is there a single right interpretation? E. D. Hirsch, Jr. , Aims of Interpretation aesthetics Category Hermeneutics Category Concepts in aesthetics Category Perception Category Mental processes Category Interpretation philosophy ... more details
file MenemTrucho.jpg thumb 220px One Menem trucho. Menem trucho is the popular name given to a series of banknote s of no value with the face of Carlos Saul Menem and propaganda phrases that were distributed through street promoters and basic units in the early 1990s in Argentina . With the symbolic title of A value that stabilized the country and Ten years of stability , they were created as a propaganda policy by the then President of Argentina Carlos Saul Menem. Despite the obvious falsity of the bill there were those who used it to pay for purchases in neighboring countries such as Bolivia and Paraguay . ref name clarin http edant.clarin.com diario 2003 01 08 p 01101.htm Menem y la c bala del billete es icon ref Origin of the name The word trucho is an argentinian slang for fake , the fact that they where not legal tender and had no monetary value, they were baptized Menem truchos . Controversy The banknote was printed in true paper money and includes a Watermark with the Coat of arms of Argentina , celebrating the 60th birthday of the President. This issue, was done by the Casa de Moneda de la Rep blica Argentina , a state society of which Armando Gostanian was the highest authority he was investigated for public embezzlement, but was ultimately dismissed. ref name clarin References reflist category Propaganda ca Menemtrucho es Menem trucho ... more details
mathematics variables , and the value of the function being either truth or falsity , a truth ... is true, and Y x Falsity if and only if x is Yellow is false. For example, Y banana Truth, since a banana ... than an elephant, but S mouse, ant Falsity, since a mouse is not smaller than an ant. Object, name ... more details
unreferenced date January 2007 Pass by catastrophe refers to any number of popular urban legends in academia claiming that if some particular catastrophic event occurs, students whose performance could have been affected by the event are automatically awarded passing grades on the grounds that there would then be no way to assess them fairly and they cannot be penalized for the catastrophe. Overview Typical instances of this legend include If someone dies during an exam, all the other students present pass. If a University or, in some versions, a University s library burns down or is otherwise destroyed, all current students immediately graduate with upper second class honours. If a student commits suicide, their roommate s automatically receive A s for all their classes that semester. Since such events are very rare, there is little in the way of evidence to suggest the truth or falsity of these statements. The BBC investigated the truth of the first of these statements with regard to school exams most stated that, if an exam does have to be halted due to a disaster of some kind, all students are awarded their predicted grades, possibly with a small bonus. Similarly, after the 2007 Virginia Tech Massacre , traumatized students were given the option of taking their current grades as an alternative to returning to class for the remaining three weeks of the semester. Media appearances The urban legend was the basis for two 1998 movies Dead Man on Campus movie Dead Man on Campus , a dark comedy , and The Curve film The Curve a.k.a. Dead Man s Curve , a thriller film thriller . It was also referenced in the 1998 thriller Urban Legend film Urban Legend , as the roommate of one of the main characters was killed in her dorm room. edu stub Category Urban legends ... more details
Obreption and subreption both from the Latin word repo reptum genitive to creep or crawl. The prefix, Ob means towards, against, or, in the way of Sub means under, or, close to are terms used in ancient Roman law and in the church s canon law applied by the Catholic church to species of fraud by which an ecclesiastical rescript is obtained. Dispensation Catholic Church Dispensation s or Actual grace grace s are not granted unless there be some motive for requesting them, and the law of the Church requires that the true and just causes that lie behind the motive be stated in every prayer for such dispensation or grace. When the petition contains a statement about facts or circumstances that are supposititious or at least, modified if they really exist, the resulting rescript is said to be vitiated by obreption , which consists in a positive allegation of what is false. If, on the other hand, silence had been observed concerning something that essentially changed the state of the case, the concealment or suppression of statements or facts that according to law or usage should be expressed in an application or petition for a rescript is called subreption . Rescripts obtained by obreption or subreption are null and void when the motive cause of the rescript is affected by them. If it is only the impelling cause, and the substance of the petition is not affected, or if the false statement was made through ignorance, the rescript is not vitiated. As requests for rescripts must come through a person in ecclesiastical authority, it is his duty to inform himself of the truth or falsity of the causes alleged in the petitions, and in case they are granted, to see that the conditions of the rescript are fulfilled. In its effects subreption is equivalent to obreption. Subreption may be intentional and malicious, or attributable solely to ignorance or inadvertence. It may affect the primary, substantial reason or motive of the grant, or constitute merely a secondary or impellent ... more details
File Serendipities.jpg thumb right 1st edition br publ. Columbia University Press Serendipities Language and Lunacy originally published in English, translated by William Weaver is a 1998 collection of essays by Umberto Eco . Dealing with the history of linguistics and Early Modern concepts of a perfect language , the material in the book overlaps with La ricerca della lingua perfetta . As Eco explains it in his preface, serendipity is the positive outcome of some ill conceived idea. ref I wanted to show how ... false beliefs and discoveries totally without credibility could then lead to the discovery of something true or at least something we consider true today . In the field of the sciences, this mechanism is known as serendipity . An excellent example of it is given us by Columbus.. Eco U., Serendipities, Preface p. vii ref Chapters The Force of Falsity Languages in Paradise From Marco Polo to Leibniz Stories of Intellectual Misunderstandings The Language of the Austral Land The Linguistics of Joseph de Maistre In Chapter 1 , based on a 1994 lecture held at Bologna University, Eco introduces his thesis about consequences of erroneous beliefs. Chapter 2 contains essentially the same material as chapters 1 and 3 of La ricerca della lingua perfetta , while Chapter 3 is a reworking of its chapters 7 and 14 5 . Chapters 4 and 5 have been published as essays in honor of Luigi Rosiello and deal with La Terre Australe connue by Gabriel de Foigny and Joseph de Maistre s views as exposed in his Soirees de Saint Petersbourg . Editions Columbia University Press 1998 ISBN 0231111347. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999 Harvest Books 1999 ISBN 0156007517. References references Umberto Eco Category Linguistics books Category 1998 books Category Books by Umberto Eco ... more details
Infobox journal title Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion cover File Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.jpg discipline multidisciplinary language English website http www.blackwellpublishing.com journal.asp?ref 0021 8294&site 1 link1 link1 name publisher Wiley Blackwell country International abbreviation JSSR history One volume per year, beginning 1961 frequency 4 issues per year ISSN 0021 8294 eISSN 1468 5906 impact 0.907 impact year 2008 Jstor jsciestudreli OCLC 49890280 LCCN 2004 221976 The Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion J Sci Study Relig is a peer reviewed journal, published by Wiley Blackwell in the United States of America under the auspices of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion , dedicated to publishing scholarly articles in the social sciences, including psychology , sociology and anthropology , devoted to the study of religion. It is not a theology journal, as its publications tend to be Empirical research empirical papers in the aforementioned disciplines, rather than papers assessing the truth or falsity, or otherwise attempting to clarify, theological doctrines. That said, the eminent theologian Paul Tillich wrote a preface to the first edition, published in 1961. A former editor, Ralph W. Hood , is a major name in the psychology of religion , having published scales to assess religious experience and mystical experience . Hood was succeeded as editor in 1999 by Ted Jelen, the first ever political scientist to edit the journal. Jelen was later succeeded as editor by sociologist Rhys H. Williams sociologist Rhys Williams . The current editor of the journal is Marie Cornwall . The 2008 impact factor of the journal was 0.907, 37 of the 99 sociology journals in Journal Citation Reports . External links Portalbox Religion http www.blackwellpublishing.com journal.asp?ref 0021 8294&site 1 Journal home page http www.sssrweb.org society home page http www.jstor.org action showPublication?journalCode jsciestudreli JST ... more details
Dr. Daniel Rynhold is the Associate Professor of Modern Jewish Philosophy at Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies at Yeshiva University in New York a post which he has held since August 2007. He was previously Lecturer in Judaism in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at King s College, London . He received a B.A. in Philosophy at Cambridge University , a MA in Hebrew and Jewish Studies at University College London and a PhD in Jewish Philosophy at the London School of Economics . Dr. Rynhold also teaches at the Bergen County High School of Jewish Studies. His academic interests include the philosophical thought of Moses Maimonides and Joseph Soloveitchik and the relationship between Jewish and non Jewish philosophy. ref cite web url http www.yu.edu yeshivacollege departments jewishphilosophy index.aspx?id 24974 title Jewish Philosophy Faculty accessdate 2010 01 14 publisher Yeshiva University Dead link date October 2010 bot H3llBot ref Publications Good and Evil, Truth and Falsity Maimonides and Moral Cognitivism. Trumah No. 12 2002 ,pp. 163 182. Two Models of Jewish Philosophy Justifying One s Practices, Oxford University Press, 2005 An Introduction to Medieval Jewish Philosophy, I. B. Tauris, 2009 References Reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Rynhold, Daniel ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH London DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Rynhold, Daniel Category Alumni of University College London Category Alumni of the London School of Economics Category Academics of King s College London Category Yeshiva University faculty Category British Orthodox Jews Category Jewish philosophers Category Jewish theologians Category Philosophers of Judaism Category Living people Category Year of birth missing living people Category Alumni of the University of Cambridge Judaism bio stub theologian stub ... more details
File Jerzy Perzanowski 2009 .jpg thumb Jerzy Perzanowski Jerzy Perzanowski born April 23, 1943 in Aix les Bains May 17, 2009 in Bydgoszcz , was a Poland Polish logician and ontologist , Professor of Logic to the University of Toru Poland from 1992 to 2004. Founder of the Polish review Logic and Logical Philosophy , his main contributions are to the development of modal logic, paraconsistent logic and ontology. Selected publications in English Ontologies and ontologics . In Logic counts. Edited by Zarnecka Bialy Ewa. Dordrecht Kluwer 1990. pp. 23 42. Towards post Tractatus ontology. In Wittgenstein. Towards a re evaluation Proceedings of the 14th International Wittgenstein Symposium, centenary celebration, 13 20 August 1989 Kirchberg am Wechsel Austria . Edited by Haller Rudolf, Haller, and Brandl Johannes. Dordrecht Kluwer 1990. pp. 185 199. What is non Fregean in the semantics of Wittgenstein s Tractatus and why? Axiomathes 4 3 357 372 1993 . Modal logics of truth and falsity I. Conceptual and logical framework, and logics of the matrix approach of Boole. In Logik, Begriffe, Prinzipien des Handelns Logic, concepts, principles of action. Edited by M ller Thomas and Newen Albert. Paderborn Mentis 2007. pp. 95 112. Art of Philosophy. A Selection of Jerzy Perzanowski s Works Frankfurt Ontos Verlag, 2011. External links http www.ontology.co perzanowskij.htm Jerzy Perzanowski Modal Logic, Ontology and Ontologics http www.ontology.co biblio perzanowski biblio.htm Annotated Bibliography of the Writings of Perzanowski commonscat Jerzy Perzanowski Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Perzanowski, Jerzy ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1943 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH May 17, 2009 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Perzanowski, Jerzy Category 1943 births Category 2009 deaths Category Polish logicians eo Jerzy Perzanowski pl Jerzy Perzanowski ... more details
Richard Ladd Kirkham born 18 June 1955 is an United States America n philosopher . Among his published works ref http philpapers.org s Richard 20L. 20Kirkham ref are the much cited Theories of Truth MIT Press, 1992 , Does the Gettier Problem Rest on a Mistake? Mind 1984. Vol.93, No.372 ref Online version http www.centenary.edu attachments philosophy aizawa courses epistemologyf2008 kirkham1984.pdf ref , and On Paradoxes and a Surprise Exam Philosophia 1991 . Kirkham graduated from Cornell College in 1977 and received his Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame in 1983. Kirkham is probably best known for his work on analytic theories of truth. In his praised ref For examples, see Carlin Romano, If there are philosopher kings, why not philosopher journalists? Boston Sunday Globe, 12 5 1993, p. B21 Boston, MA excellent new book and Frederick F Schmidt, Truth A Primer Westview Press 1995. ref book, Theories of Truth , Kirkham describes the largely overlooked fact that the various theories of truth proposed through the centuries are really not all competitors of each other because they are often intended to answer distinct questions about truth. For example, some have been intended only to provide the extensional necessary and sufficient conditions for truth, while others have been intended to provide a definition of truth, and still others are intended only to explain the linguistic and non linguistic purposes of statements that predicate truth or falsity. He is also the author of four articles in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Routledge, 1998 . See also American philosophy Knowledge Gettier problem Liar Paradox References reflist 2 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Kirkham, Richard ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 18 June 1955 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Kirkham, Richard Category 1955 births Category Living people Category American philosophers Category University of Notre Dame alumni US philosoph ... more details
amateur violinist. Quotation Truth and Falsity , in the only strict sense of the terms, are characteristics ... or false and only Propositions can be true or false. The truth or falsity of a Proposition is, so to say ... more details
in falsity, the court was dealing with a falsity that harmed another like, for example, defamation ... that speech can injure. ... You think there s no value to falsity. But I I simply can t find that in our cases, and I I think it s a sweeping proposition to say that there s no value to falsity. Falsity ... by stating that there is value in falsity so long as it doesn t cause imminent harm to another ... more details
Image Truth Warner Highsmith.jpeg thumb Truth, holding a mirror and a serpent 1896 . Olin Levi Warner , Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building , Washington, D.C. The correspondence theory of truth states that the truth or falsity of a statement is determined only by how it relates to the world and whether it accurately describes i.e., corresponds with that world. The theory is opposed to the coherence theory of truth which holds that the truth or falsity of a statement is determined by its relations to other statements rather than its relation to the world. Citation needed date February 2012 Correspondence theories claim that true beliefs and true statements correspond to the actual state of affairs. This type of theory attempts to posit a relationship between thoughts or statements on one hand, and things or facts on the other. It is a traditional model which goes back at least to some of the classical Greek philosophers such as Socrates , Plato , and Aristotle . ref Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Vol.2, Correspondence Theory of Truth , auth Arthur N. Prior, p223 224 Macmillan, 1969 ref This class of theories holds that the truth or the falsity of a representation is determined solely by how it relates to a reality that is, by whether it accurately describes that reality. As Aristotle claims in his Metaphysics To say that either that which is, is not or that which is not is, is a falsehood and to say that that which is, is and that which is not is not, is true . ref Aristotle, Metaphysics, 1011b26 ref Varieties of correspondence theories Expand section date September 2008 Correspondence as congruence Bertrand Russell theorized that a statement, to be true, must have a structural isomorphism with the state of affairs in the world that makes it true. For example, A cat is on a mat is true if, and only if, there is in the world a cat and a mat and the cat is related to the mat by virtue of being on it. If any of the three pieces the cat, the mat, and the relation ... more details
In logic , an atomic sentence is a type of declarative Sentence mathematical logic sentence which is either true or false may also be referred to as a proposition , statement logic statement or truthbearer and which cannot be broken down into other simpler sentences. For example The dog ran is an atomic sentence in natural language, whereas The dog ran and the cat hid. is a molecular sentence in natural language. From a logical analysis, the truth or falsity of sentences in general is determined by only two things the logical form of the sentence and the truth or falsity of its simple sentences. This is to say, for example, that the truth of the sentence John is Greek and John is happy is a function of the meaning of logical conjunction and , and the truth value s of the atomic sentences John is Greek and John is happy . However, the truth or falsity of an atomic sentence is not a matter that is within the scope of logic itself, but rather whatever art or science the content of the atomic sentence happens to be talking about. ref Philosophy of Logic , Willard Van Orman Quine ref Logic has developed artificial languages, for example sentential calculus and predicate calculus partly with the purpose of revealing the underlying logic of natural languages statements, the surface grammar of which may conceal the underlying logical structure see Analytic philosophy. In these artificial languages an Atomic Sentence is a string of symbols which can represent an elementary sentence in a natural language, and it can be defined as follows. In a formal language, a well formed formula or wff is a string of symbols constituted in accordance with the rules of syntax of the language. A term logic term is a variable, an individual constant or a n place function letter followed by n terms. An atomic formula is an wff consisting of either a sentential letter or an n place predicate logic predicate letter followed by n terms. A sentence is a wff in which any variables are bound. An ato ... more details
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