Truth function mapping

Burroughs Truth Function Eyaluator

Function and Truth in Ethics

In the first part of The Ethical Project Philip Kitcher provides a naturalistic account of the function of ethical practice. Though he conceives of this as an unashamedly empirical task— Kitcher denies that the function of ethical practice is to get at the ethical truth, or to get people to behave in accordance with the ethical truth—it is not one that he thinks has a debunking upshot. Instead ...

The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth

This discussion aims to provide the occasional medical expert witness with background knowledge of the adversarial court system and the role of the medical expert witness within it. The parallel evolution of the adversarial and inquisitorial legal systems has been more out of tradition rather than any systematic review of the effectiveness of one system or the other. Both legal systems have the...

Intersubstitutivity principles and the generalization function of truth

We offer a defense of one aspect of Paul Horwich’s response to the Liar paradox—more specifically, of his move to preserve classical logic. Horwich’s response requires that the full intersubstitutivity of ‘ ‘A’ is true’ and A be abandoned. It is thus open to the objection, due to Hartry Field, that it undermines the generalization function of truth. We defend Horwich’s move by isolating the gra...

Truth about Truth Detecting Techniques

During the period from 2001 to 2010 police officials in India were lured by a team of pseudo-scientists, from the Forensic Laboratories in Bangalore and Ahmadabad to make use of narcoanalysis, polygraph test and brain fingerprinting to extract confessions from accused persons. All the three tests, preceded by a pre-test interview and interrogation, were conducted by the one and the same expert ...