Anselm on Truth and Goodness

Knowledge Has to Do with Truth, Goodness, and Beauty

Ikujiro Nonaka: It's a long story. Originally, I was interested in information processing. I spent five and a half years at UC Berkeley in the M.B.A. and Ph.D. programs and finished my Ph.D. dissertation in 1972. My major was marketing and Francisco M. Nicosia was my mentor. He's Italian. He had been an assistant professor at the University of Rome and came to Berkeley, got a degree there, and ...

Anselm and Actuality

Philosophy abounds in troublesome modal arguments-endlessly debated, perennially plausible, perennially suspect. The standards of validity for modal reasoning have long been unclear; they become clear only when we provide a semantic analysis of modal logic by reference to possible worlds and to possible things therein.2 Thus insofar as we understand modal reasoning at all, we understand it as d...

From “Goodness” in Chinese Confucianism to “Truth” in Japanese Confucianism

After being introduced to Japan, part of the basic ethic concepts and value of Chinese Confucianism, which pursues “goodness” as its core value standard, are deep into the hearts of Japanese people and become an impartment part of their moral standard and national mentality. However, due to the inclusive and subjective characteristics of Japanese culture, Chinese Confucianism that pursues “good...

Goodness and Truth: An Essay on Ralph Hancock's The Responsibility of Reason

Ramsey on Truth and Truth on Ramsey

It is widely held, to the point of being the received interpretation, that Frank Ramsey was the first to defend the so-called Redundancy Theory of Truth in his landmark article ‘Facts and Propositions’ (hereafter ‘FP’) of 1927. For instance, A.J. Ayer cited this article in the context of arguing that saying that p is true is simply a way of asserting p and that truth is not a real quality or re...