There are two main sources of the idea that truth has degrees.
One is objective idealism, as explained under coherence theory of truth.
The other arises because many predicates are essentially vague. When does a heap of sand become large? It seems plausible that a 100-grain heap is not large, and that a heap which is not large can never become large by acquiring just one extra grain.
It seems to follow that a small heap which has grains added one at a time can never become large. (This is one version of the paradox known as that of the heap, the sorites, or the bald man; being invented in ancient Greece and only revived quite recently.)
The paradox (like many) is harder to answer than appears at first, and one answer takes the form of letting truth have degrees.
Source:
R M Sainsbury, Paradoxes (1988), ch. 2
Table of Contents
- 1 Videos
- 2 Related Products
- 2.1 Time Travel Artifact
- 2.2 42 degrees of truth: Unicorn (Out of Standard)
- 2.3 13 Degrees
- 2.4 The Six Degrees of Helter Skelter
- 2.5 Reins Of Life
- 2.6 212 The Extra Degree: Extraordinary Results Begin with One Small Change (Ignite Reads)
- 2.7 Grace: The Truth, Growth, and Different Degrees
- 2.8 Open Book
- 2.9 CrossWord Game for Freemasons
- 2.10 Shaft (2019)
- coherence theory of truth
- identity theory of truth
- truth conditional semantics
- correspondence theory of truth
- truth theory
Videos
42 degrees of truth: Unicorn (Out of Standard)
- Ray, Victoria (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 136 Pages - 10/18/2019 (Publication Date) - SE (Publisher)
The Six Degrees of Helter Skelter
- Factory sealed DVD
- Ron Hale, Craig Harvey, Nikki Medlin (Actors)
- Michael Dorsey (Director) - Michael Dorsey (Writer) - Cathy L. Freeman (Producer)
- English (Publication Language)
- Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Reins Of Life
- Audio CD – Audiobook
- Underground Symphony (Publisher)
212 The Extra Degree: Extraordinary Results Begin with One Small Change (Ignite Reads)
- Hardcover Book
- Parker, Sam (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 128 Pages - 10/01/2018 (Publication Date) - Simple Truths (Publisher)
Grace: The Truth, Growth, and Different Degrees
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Love, Christopher (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 173 Pages - 02/02/2015 (Publication Date) - Titus Books (Publisher)
Open Book
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Simpson, Jessica (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 416 Pages - 02/04/2020 (Publication Date) - Dey Street Books (Publisher)
CrossWord Game for Freemasons
- Crossword Game
- Game
- Freemasons Game
- Freemasons
- Freemasonry
- Arabic (Publication Language)
Shaft (2019)
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Samuel L. Jackson, Jessie T. Usher, Richard Roundtree (Actors)
- Tim Story (Director) - Kenya Barris (Writer) - John Davis (Producer)
- English (Playback Language)
- English (Subtitle)
- Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
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