FASH 162 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Correspondence Theory Of Truth, Pyrrho, Scientific Revolution

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Fashion (FASH)
• Course: FASH 162
• Professor: Sifet

Document Summary

Thoughts about information acquisition from ancient greece to the end of the 19th. Plato: rationalist view, reasoning is more important than perception. = statement is true when it corresponds with physical reality: outside reality has priority and humans tries to understand it. Aristotle: empiricist view, distinction between deductive and inductive reasoning, theoretical knowledge started from axioms new knowledge, perception as source of information, but not knowledge itself, formulated correspondence theory of truth. Correspondence theory of truth = a statement is true when it corresponds with reality. Assumes that there is a physical reality which has priority and which the human mind tries to understand. Scepticism = that does not deny the existence of a physical reality, but denies that humans can have reliable knowledge of it; first formulated by pyrrho of ellis. Interaction between theory and experiment: the scientific revolution. Galilei: derived his ideas partly from real experiments, did not use them to convince the audience.