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 13 Degrees
- 2.3 212 The Extra Degree: Extraordinary Results Begin with One Small Change (Ignite Reads)
- 2.4 Time Travel Artifact (Instrumental)
- 2.5 The Void Within
- 2.6 Debt-Free Degree: The Step-by-Step Guide to Getting Your Kid Through College Without Student Loans
- 2.7 The Six Degrees of Helter Skelter
- 2.8 No Dope On Sundays [Explicit]
- 2.9 Long Way, Silk Road
- 2.10 212 the Extra Degree by Sam Parker (2015-05-01)
- coherence theory of truth
- identity theory of truth
- truth conditional semantics
- correspondence theory of truth
- truth theory
Videos
212 The Extra Degree: Extraordinary Results Begin with One Small Change (Ignite Reads)
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- Parker, Sam (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 128 Pages - 10/01/2018 (Publication Date) - Simple Truths (Publisher)
Debt-Free Degree: The Step-by-Step Guide to Getting Your Kid Through College Without Student Loans
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- ONeal, Anthony (Author)
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- 224 Pages - 10/07/2019 (Publication Date) - Ramsey Press (Publisher)
The Six Degrees of Helter Skelter
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212 the Extra Degree by Sam Parker (2015-05-01)
- Preschool > Pre-Kindergarten Toys > Art & Creativity
- Hardcover Book
- Sam Parker;Mac Anderson (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 04/06/2020 (Publication Date) - Simple Truths, LLC (Publisher)
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