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1. Opening w HAT IS T H E EPISTEMOLOGICAL STATUS O F O U R KNOWledge of the truths of arithmetic? Are they analytic, the products of pure reason, as Leibniz held? O r are they high-level empirical truths that we know only a posteviori, as some empiricists, particularly Mill, have held? O r was Kant right to say that, although our lulowledge that '5+7=12' depends essentially upon intuition, it i...

The notions of logical truth, analytic truth, and necessary truth are extremely important in philosophy. A logically true sentence remains true no matter what the interpretation of the nonlogical constants. An analytically true sentence is true in virtue of the meanings of its words. Necessarily true sentences are true in all possible worlds. The concepts involved in these definitions are centr...

Although much is known about word usage differences between truths and lies, most of the research to date involves an examination of truths and lies in low stakes situations, written statements or interviews but not both, and native speakers of a single language. We examined differences in word usage between truth tellers and liars in a moderately high stakes, real-life scenario (mock crime) in...

In December of 1998, there was published a seminal work using precise measurements of supernovae magnitudes and leading to the conclusion of an apparent accelerated expansion of observed part of Universe. But when we approach the processing of these precise data from a classical ethereal position, without relativistic adjustments, we get another picture, and we believe it is the correct one. It...

PHILOSOPHY VII 1999 1. Opening WHAT IS THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL STATUS OF OUR KNOWledge of the truths of arithmetic? Are they analytic, the products of pure reason, as Leibniz held? Or are they high-level empirical truths that we know only a posteriori, as some empiricists, particularly Mill, have held? Or was Kant right to say that, although our knowledge that ‘5+7=12’ depends essentially upon intu...