In this article the author identifies a paradox at heart of Descartes? foundationalist project. The components are as follows: on one hand, ontological certainty cogito, other its epistemic uncertainty: it is impossible for solus ipse to establish elementary truth: present determine whether now night or daylight. For Descartes solution consists introducing God and in believing His existence. Bu...

within the linguistic paradigm, there is a problem that was always connected with coherence conceptions of truth: how we may, in light of the evidence available to us, raise an unconditional truth claim that aims beyond what is justified. in other words, within the linguistic paradigm, if the truth of a proposition can no longer be conceived as correspondence with something in the world, then h...

prove or confirm the existence of an object, like all voluntary act of the imagination, it begins.imagine this in mind, what is the true form of an object. beginning to acknowledge the existence of god and the truth of this concept in mind, we have attempted to acknowledge him. obviously some of the concepts such as the existence of the concepts of theoretical need, and the accuracy of reflecti...

Legend has it that in the beginning was ‘the Word’. There is at least one bit of truth in this, in the sense that it must have been a feeling of marvelous joy for our ancient ancestors suddenly to be able to give names to the world. “This is me!” “This is you!” and “Here is the sun!” It was the elevating experience of consciousness coming to itself, wrapped in language and apparently given to u...

The Quine/Putnam indispensability approach to the confirmation of mathematical theories in recent times has been the subject of significant criticism. In this paper I explore an alternative to the Quine/Putnam indispensability approach. I begin with a van Fraassen-like distinction between accepting the adequacy of a mathematical theory and believing in the truth of a mathematical theory. Finall...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Spirituality is a subjective and multi-dimensional concept. The ambiguity in its meaning can create barriers in its application in both education and medicine. The present study aimed to explore the Iranian cancer patients' perception of spirituality. METHODS A qualitative study, using the content analysis approach, was conducted. Semi-structured interviews were held ...

Accepting truth-value realism can seem to raise an explanatory problem: what can explain our accuracy about mathematics, i.e., the match between human psychology and objective mathematical facts? A range of current truth-value realist philosophies of mathematics allow one to reduce this access problem to a problem of explaining our accuracy about which mathematical practices are coherent – in a...