ENG 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Logical Truth

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 1120
• Professor: Jennifer Mac Quarrie

Document Summary

Part of the worldview of critical thinking, like science, is the idea that the world is publicly understandable. ". The fact that we believe these statements does not make them true. Also, believing them to be false does not make them false. Rather, we can describe these statements as being objectively true. An objective truth is a truth about the world, about the way the world is regardless of what we may believe about it. Related to objective truths, are the existence of self-evident or necessary truths. Last class, we considered that analytically true statements are self-evident statements that are necessarily true because of their form or because of the meanings of the words that make them up. The denial of an analytically true statement is a contradiction and cannot be true. A square is a geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles. These two statements can be described as being analytically true or objectively true.