[FRIAM] Truth: “Hunh! What is it good for? Absolutely Nothing!”

[Nick Thompson]

Ach!  I don't mean to play a game.  I come by my deafness honestly, as anybody who has sat with me at FRIAM will attest. 

Is it really the case that people have said, "By truth I mean ...." and I have missed it.  If so, I do apologize.  

Taking up your challenge as penance:  A Naïve realist would, I suppose, say that there is a real world out there that we have clues to.  Sometimes we get it right; sometimes we get it wrong.  It's a dualist position because there are two kinds of stuff in the world, the world stuff out there and the mind stuff in here.  Truth can apply to both kinds of stuff.  I E, there is a truth-of-the-matter with respect to what you think or what I think, as well as a truth of the matter with respect to whether what we think is true of the world. 

As for Hoffman, I don't know.   

Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/


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On 10/17/2017 10:50 AM, Nick Thompson wrote:
>  by asserting another definition of Truth, but so far nobody has done 
> that.

Heh, now you're playing a new game! 8^)  Plenty of us *have* provided other definitions of truth.  As in active listening exercises, perhaps you could make an attempt to describe a naive realist's definition of truth that differs from Peirce's?  Or perhaps you could describe Hoffman's interface perception theory (which I think is an alternative to what you're saying Peirce's is)?

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