What Is Truth? 12+

📓 WHAT IS TRUTH AN ESSAY IN THE THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE BY ARTHUR KENYON ROGERS NEW HAVEN YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON HUMPHREY MILFORD - OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS MDCCCCXXIII CONTENTS Belief and the Criterion of tfruth 1 Nature of Certainty 29 Definition of tfruth or tfrueness 55 Knowledge of Other Selves and of the Past 87 Some Competing theories 100 Relations 128 Some Metaphysical Implications 159 PREFACE IN a volume published not long ago and entitled Essays in Critical Realism a volume due to the collaboration of several writers there was pre sented to the philosophical world a somewhat new analysis of the cognitive experience, centering about a conception to which, following Mr. Santayanas terminology, the name of essence was applied. Critics generally seem to have found the conception a difficult one, not wholly through their own fault. It was the intention of the writers to recommend primarily a certain empirical description of the knowing experience and having called attention, in terms of what knowledge actually means to the knower, to one aspect in particular that had, as they thought, commonly been overlooked or misinter preted, they preferred to leave the matter here, especially since they were by no means in agreement about the next step. Their critics for the most part have asked for something further, and in the absence of any explicit account of the more ultimate philo sophical status of the essence they have, perhaps naturally, found the whole doctrine obscure. The ...