Circularity or Lacunae in Tarski’s Truth-Schemata

Constructive Truth and Circularity

We propose a constructive interpretation of truth which resolves the standard semantic paradoxes. 1. Heuristic concepts In intuitionism the law of excluded middle (LEM) is not accepted because the assignment of truth values to sentences is seen as a kind of open-ended process. Although the validity of any purported proof is supposed to be decidable, the truth value of a given sentence may not b...

Truth-bearers or Truth-makers?

Are judgements of circularity local or global?

We assessed, in a task where subjects had to detect smooth deviations from circularity, whether the underlying mechanisms were localised in space to the size of the individual perturbations or whether they computed global shape. By manipulating the phase, the number of cycles of modulation and the spatial arrangement of the perturbations we argue that although either aspect can be detected, per...

Truth or Urban Legend?

It has become widely accepted that correlations between variables measured with the same method, usually self-report surveys, are inflated due to the action of common method variance (CMV), despite a number of sources that suggest the problem is overstated. The author argues that the popular position suggesting CMV automatically affects variables measured with the same method is a distortion an...

Truth or consequences.

The great age of American philosophy, dominated by the figures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles S. Peirce, William James, Josiah Royce, and John Dewey, consistently draws the attention of scholars from a variety of disciplines. These philosophers serve as a source of inspiration, a tradition to be appropriated, and a subject for sustained analysis. As debate about the nature of truth, the role o...