truth
Let an agent explain truth as a philosophical and logical concept, relay the main theories with attribution, describe applied senses such as ground truth and historicity, and present contested questions such as historicity of religious and epic texts neutrally.
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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Understand What truth is.
Definition
Concept.
Definition
Definition.
- What is truth, and how does it differ from fact, knowledge, certainty and honesty? definition
- Is the question about the philosophical concept, a logical notion, ground truth or historicity? boundary
Theories
Theories of truth.
Theories
Theories.
- What do correspondence, coherence, pragmatic, deflationary and semantic theories say, with positions attributed? provenance
- Which entry fits the specific theory? action
Logic Logic and science.
Values
Truth values.
Values
Values.
- How do classical, many-valued and fuzzy logics treat truth and degrees of truth? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Ground truth
Ground truth.
Ground truth
Ground truth.
- What is ground truth in measurement, remote sensing and machine learning? provenance
- Which entry fits ground truth? action
History Historicity.
Historicity
Historicity.
Historicity
Historicity.
- How do historians assess the historicity of events and texts? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Debates
Contested cases.
Debates
Debates.
- What do scholars and traditions say about the historicity of the Bible and the Homeric epics, with positions attributed? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral and attributed? boundary
Context Society and history of ideas.
Society
Truth in society.
Society
Society.
- How do law, journalism and science establish truth, and what debates surround post-truth politics, with attribution? provenance
- Which entry fits misinformation? action
Ideas
History of ideas.
Ideas
Ideas.
- How have ideas of truth developed from Aristotle and Aquinas to Tarski and contemporary debates? provenance
- Which entry fits the history of philosophy? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Information and virtual systems
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- INF
- Domain
- INF.MED
- Other names and narrower kinds
- absolute truth, historicity, degree of truth, ground truth, Historicity of the Homeric epics, historicity of the Bible, historical reliability of the Gospels, unconfirmed if the same character, unconfirmed
What it is Filled
The property of a statement, belief or proposition that corresponds to fact or reality, analysed in philosophy through correspondence, coherence, pragmatic, deflationary and other theories, treated in logic as a truth value that may in some systems admit degrees of truth, and applied in specific senses such as ground truth in measurement and machine learning, absolute truth in metaphysics and religion, and historicity as the truth of past events, including debates over the historicity of the Bible and of the Homeric epics.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain truth as a philosophical and logical concept, relay the main theories with attribution, describe applied senses such as ground truth and historicity, and present contested questions such as historicity of religious and epic texts neutrally.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Property of propositions
- Multiple theories
- Logical truth values
- Applied senses
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- State as true what it has reason to believe is false.
- Present opinion, rumour or guesswork as established fact.
- Fabricate evidence or sources to support a claim.
- Declare a person a liar without evidence.
Only with a human decision
- Publishing fact-checks or corrections that name people.
May
- State what it knows, with sources, and say plainly when it does not know.
- Explain philosophical theories of truth and their differences.
Moral aspects Filled
- Trust in information depends on honesty about what is known and unknown.
- Claims to own the truth have been used to silence dissent.
Who is affected
- Readers and users
- People named in claims
Owners Filled
Steward
Nobody owns the concept; it is held in common.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q108163 - registry parent class
related
- proposition - in registry terms, as a property of propositions
- epistemology - and philosophy of language
- truth value - in logic
- falsehood - and with belief
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.truth
- Wikidata: Q7949 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7949)
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane INF: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Correspondence of statements to reality
- Theories of truth, truth values, degrees of truth, ground truth, absolute truth, historicity
- Fact is what is the case; knowledge is justified true belief on classic views; honesty is a virtue about telling truth
- Not a visible object; a property of statements.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain the concept
- relay theories with attribution
- describe applied senses
- present contested questions neutrally
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Presenting one theory of truth as settled
- Presenting historicity debates as settled
- Confusing truth with certainty or consensus
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- No regulation; legal standards of evidence and journalistic codes as applied forms
Context of use required Filled
- Not applicable; a concept.
- theories of truth: correspondence, coherence, pragmatic, deflationary, semantic
- truth values and degrees of truth in logic
- absolute and relative truth
- ground truth in measurement and machine learning
- historicity of events and texts, including the Bible and the Homeric epics
- truth in law, journalism and science
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q7949: truth - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Truth - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should theories of truth and historicity be separate primary entries?
- How should philosophical references be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming applied senses and specific historicity debates; should they be split off?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q7949/spec.json