SSH 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Child Abuse

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Social Sciences and Humanities
• Course: SSH 105
• Professor: Klaas Kraay

Document Summary

Realism is the best default system of belief . Coherence model of truth: what makes something true is that it fits with a whole supported system of well supported propositions. Today is thursday due to the following support: (i) (ii) my ssh-105 schedule says i have class on thursdays (iii) Coherence with a single system may not be sufficient. Coherence with a well-supported system is not necessary for truth. You are convinced (by your system of beliefs) that your spouse is loyal, but you now have new evidence to suggest that she/he is an infidel. Correspondence model of truth: a proposition is true only in the case it describes things as they actually are thus corresponding to facts. True proposition: i am currently reading these notes via an electronic device. False proposition: there is an elephant running around in front of me.