Stephen, All,
There are many conceptions of truth -- linguistic, model-theoretic,
proof-theoretic -- for the moment I'm focused on cybernetic, systems,
and experimental sciences and this is where the pragmatic conception
of truth fits what we naturally do in those sciences remarkably well.
The main thing in those activities is the relationship among symbol systems,
the world, and our actions, whether in thought, among ourselves, or between
ourselves and the world. So the notion of truth we want here is predicated
on three dimensions: the patch of the world we are dealing with in a given
application, the systems of signs we are using to describe that domain, and
the transformations of signs we find of good service in bearing information
about that piece of the world.
I'll dig up some material on the pragmatic conception of truth ...
Regards,
Jon
On 11/5/2019 10:32 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote:
Could we define truth as an invariant with respect to
translations between languages?
IOW, if a sentence is true, then it will be true in any language
(that is sufficiently expressive to contain its semantic content).
On Sun, Nov 3, 2019 at 4:50 PM Jon Awbrey <[email protected]> wrote:
Cf : Pragmatic Theory Of Truth : 13
At :
http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2019/11/03/pragmatic-theory-of-truth-%e2%80%a2-13/
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I looked at John Corcoran's contribution on Formalizing Pragmatic Truth
( https://www.academia.edu/s/e98bbab60f/formalizing-pragmatic-truth )
but I did not see anything near enough what I'd recognize as a
pragmatic theory of truth.
Pragmatic inquiry into a putative concept of truth would begin
by applying the pragmatic maxim to clarify the concept so far as
possible and a pragmatic definition of truth, if any should result,
would be formulated within Peirce's theory of logic as formal semiotics,
in other words, stated in terms of a formal theory of triadic sign
relations.
Regards,
Jon
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