Week 12 The Truth

Topic 11 Russell. 1918. Do Facts Make True Whatever Is True

Recap of Week 10 Knowledge

Notice, however, that P1 is false: Jones does not own a Ford. Our first idea to fix the Gettier problem might be to rule out inferences from false premises:

No false premises. If a person knows that p, then this person did not infer p from a false premise.

Disjunction: Indicating "or", a disjunction (or-statement) is true if at least one disjunct is true.

The false premise when reasoning with stuff: If you reason towards toward a proposition with a wrong premise, it's not a knowledge.

Over Russell

Facts are something you have to take account of if you are going to give a complete account of the world.

(Mathematical, Particular, General, Positive, Negative) facts

Fact doesn't have an end: The fact comes to existence in the wake of an event, but fact does not end in temporal similarity as the event.

Proof of existence: what is required for us to have the right access to the world to know certain thing is the case.

What "Socrates is mortal / Socrates is dead" denotes

B is simply not a statement of facts: It is the denial of there being a particular fact, i.e. the fact that Socrates is alive. Be as it may, you get the idea, it's iffy to say how false statements are connected to facts at all.

Facts vs. names

Names without references are meaningless, but statements without references are not meaningless.