Les philosophes de la vérité s’intéressent à une constellation de questions impliquant le concept de vérité.. Une question préliminaire, bien que quelque peu subsidiaire, c'est décider quel genre de choses peuvent être vraies. La vérité est-elle une propriété des phrases (qui sont des entités linguistiques dans une langue ou une autre), ou la vérité est-elle une propriété des propositions (non linguistique, entités abstraites et intemporelles)? Le problème principal est: Qu'est-ce que la vérité? Il

Rudolph Hermann Lotze (1817–1881) Hermann Lotze was a key figure in the philosophy of the second half of the nineteenth century, influencing practically all the leading philosophical schools of the late nineteenth and the coming twentieth century, y compris (J’ai) the neo-Kantians; (Ii) Brentano and his school; (iii) The British idealists; (iv) William James’s pragmatism; (v) Husserl’s phenomenology; (vi) Dilthey’s philosophy of life; (vii) Frege’s new

Explication Explication is a method employed throughout philosophy and most sciences, as well as any cognitive endeavors which involve allocating concepts. It is also notably found in the sphere of law. Since explication is part and parcel of the traditionally philosophical subject of concept formation, philosophy is the main discipline to reflect on it extensively. Explication has sometimes been compared to a number of philosophical

The Compactness Theorem The compactness theorem is a fundamental theorem for the model theory of classical propositional and first-order logic. As well as having importance in several areas of mathematics, such as algebra and combinatorics, it also helps to pinpoint the strength of these logics, which are the standard ones used in mathematics and arguably the most important ones in philosophy. The main focus of

Existentialism Existentialism is a catch-all term for those philosophers who consider the nature of the human condition as a key philosophical problem and who share the view that this problem is best addressed through ontology. This very broad definition will be clarified by discussing seven key themes that existentialist thinkers address. Those philosophers considered existentialists are mostly from the continent of Europe, and date from

Moral Character At the heart of one major approach to ethics—an approach counting among its proponents Plato, Aristote, Augustine and Aquinas—is the conviction that ethics is fundamentally related to what kind of persons we are. Many of Plato’s dialogues, par exemple, focus on what kind of persons we ought to be and begin with examinations of particular virtues: What is the nature of justice? (République)