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What is truth?
- telemachos 16y agoMatchbook cover version (his words): All truth claims can be unpacked as predictions. You'll have a lot of trouble if you try to use this as a complete or comprehensive theory of truth, as the blog's first two comments point out. (First comment asks, "What about (putatively true) statements concerning the past?" Second comment asks, "What about math?") He tips his hat at the bottom to Pierce, but the piece just feels thin, for lack of a better word. There's not a lot of meat on the assertions.
- billswift 16y agoActually, his primary definition is truth is what makes the future less surprising, which is far more general than your quote. It works even where there is not enough information to predict the future.