Truth Demystified
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2015-11-05
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Podnieks, Karlis
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For further development, see Karlis Podnieks in ResearchGate.
How could we recognize truth, if we only have models, means of model-building, and the history of their evolution? Where is the truth in the cloud of models – with so many of them already gone with the wind?
We can define truths as more or less persistent invariants of successful evolution of models and means of model-building. What is true, will not change in the future (for some time, at least).
This approach to truth could be named demystified realism (or, demystified theory of truth) – the kind of realism based on a minimum of metaphysical assumptions. (“Robotic realism” also would be appropriate, but the term is occupied already.)
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truth , models , cognition
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K. Podnieks. Truth Demystified. Preprint. Version 05/11/2015