PHI 1101 Lecture Notes - Geometric Shape, Logical Truth
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These two statements can be described as being analytically false or objectively false. Part of the worldview of critical thinking, like science, is the idea that the world is publicly understandable. ". As we will see, in matters of morality and/or justice, plato believes that there exists an objective truth. A square is a plane figure with four equal straight sides and four right angles. ". 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 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. We have 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.
