Philosophy 2500F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Foundationalism, Truth Condition, Correspondence Problem
3 Oct 2018
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Structure: entry claim, request for a basis, ground of doubt. Concerned with identity unsure about the identity. Descartes is generating a doubt about existence itself (not identity) generic objects (object hood) a doubt that rules out specialized knowledge to rule out the doubt. In a best case scenario there wouldn"t need to be a claim because there would be no doubt. !1 thinking of at the time but if someone brought it up you would agree based on something that has happened in the past: (bonjour) 2 reasonable explanations; (1) common sense is an essential basis for understanding concepts, like. (2) common sense can be mistaken: truth condition. Matter of correspondence truth by correspondence. Problem; the belief (conceptual) responds to the external world which isn"t conceptual belief has to correspond to reality. Pragmatic theory of truth truth is simply what works: gettier problem. Justi cation needs to be there to avoid the lucky guess problem.
