PHILO Determing the Truth

is rooted in the concept of knowledge as “justified, true belief

• TRUTH

• TRUE

• REALITY

• OPINION

Something is true if...

✓it corresponds to reality or the actual situation.

• Coherence Theory

• Correspondence Theory

• Consensus Theory

• Constructivist Theory

Pragmatic Theory

• We can determine truth by…

  social experience which requires interaction and collaboration

• the direct relationship between an idea and reality .

• We can determine truth by…

  its practicality in real life.

• Something is true if...

  almost everyone agrees that it is true.

Something is true if...

it is shaped by social forces and influenced by culture and history.

• Coherence Theory

• Correspondence Theory

• Pragmatic Theory

• Constructivist Theory

Personal views of the person presenting it.

• FACT

• OPINION

Relativism

• Coherence Theory

• Constructivist Theory

• Pragmatic Theory

• Correspondence Theory

____ is something that has actually happened and, in this sense, it can be proven or refuted.

• FACT

• OPINION

Faulty argumentation

• VERIFICATIONISM

• BIAS

• FALLACY

• RELATIVISM

Ideas must be verified using the senses or experience

• BIAS

• VERIFICATIONISM

• FALLACY

• RELATIVISM

BIAS

• FACT

• OPINION