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| Facts, philosophy: facts are that which corresponds to a true statement or - according to some authors - is identical with a true statement. Problems result from possible multiple counting of objects, e.g. when it is spoken of a situation and additionally by the fact that this situation exists. Therefore, some authors consider the assumption of facts as something superfluous. See also truths of reason, factual truths, facts, truth, statements, knowledge, certainty, thought objects._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Moritz Schlick on Facts - Dictionary of Arguments
I 93 Facts/HempelVsSchlick: we cannot determine the structure of facts. Therefore, we cannot say exactly what a comparison of them with statements is. >Comparisons, >Comparability, >Statements. SchlickVsHempel: Example: if I count the towers of the cathedral, I become familiar with the structure of a fact. If Hempel denies this, he uses the words in a different sense. >Descriptions. I 98 Fact/Sentence/Comparison/Match/Correspondence/HempelVsSchlick: Example -The proposition contains more parts called "words" than the cathedral has "towers". >Structures, >Grammar, >Syntax. Problem: this does not allow us to test the proposition! There is no specific "correspondence" between these physical objects here. Cf. >Picture theory. I 99 "Structure of Facts"/Hempel: for example the old question whether one should allow not only rational but also irrational values (numbers) to describe physical states. (Because "nature does not make jumps"). Pseudoproblem: this is a pseudoproblem because there is no imaginable experiment at all that provides a decision between both possibilities. It is a question of syntactic convention. >Conventions._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Schlick I Moritz Schlick "Facts and Propositions" Analysis 2 (1935) pp. 65-70 In Theories of Truth, Paul Horwich, 1994 Schlick II M. Schlick General Theory of Knowledge 1985 |
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