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  1. Published in Philosophical Topics 28 (2000): pp. 211-244.Falsity Truth & Borderline Cases - 2000 - Philosophical Topics 28:211-244.
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    Material Falsity and Error in Descartes' Meditations.Cecilia Wee - 2005 - New York: Routledge.
    _Material Falsity and Error in Descartes’s Meditations _approaches Descartes’s Meditations as an intellectual journey, wherein Descartes’s views develop and change as he makes new discoveries about self, God and matter. The first book to focus closely on Descartes’s notion of material falsity, it shows how Descartes’s account of material falsity – and correspondingly his account of crucial notions such as truth, falsehood and error – evolves according to the epistemic advances in the Meditations. It also offers important (...)
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    Proof and Falsity: A Logical Investigation.Nils Kürbis - 2019 - Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
    This book argues that the meaning of negation, perhaps the most important logical constant, cannot be defined within the framework of the most comprehensive theory of proof-theoretic semantics, as formulated in the influential work of Michael Dummett and Dag Prawitz. Nils Kürbis examines three approaches that have attempted to solve the problem - defining negation in terms of metaphysical incompatibility; treating negation as an undefinable primitive; and defining negation in terms of a speech act of denial - and concludes that (...)
  4. Falsity and Retraction: New Experimental Data on Epistemic Modals.Teresa Marques - 2024 - In Dan Zeman & Mihai Hîncu (eds.), Retraction Matters. New Developments in the Philosophy of Language. Springer. pp. 41-70.
    This paper gives experimental evidence against the claim that speakers’ intuitions support semantic relativism about assertions of epistemic modal sentences and uses this evidence as part of a broader argument against assessment relativism. It follows other papers that reach similar conclusions, such as that of Knobe and Yalcin (Semant Pragmat 7:1–21, 2014). Its results were achieved simultaneously and independently of the more recent work of Kneer (Perspectives on taste. Aesthetics, language, metaphysics, and experimental philosophy. Routledge, 2022). The experimental data in (...)
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  5. Falsity.Kevin Scharp - 2010 - In Cory Wright & Nikolaj Jang Lee Linding Pedersen (eds.), New Waves in Truth. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan.
    Although there is a massive amount of work on truth, there is very little work on falsity. Most philosophers probably think this is appropriate; after all, once we have a solid understanding of truth, falsity should not prove to be much of a challenge. However, there are several interesting and difficult issues associated with understanding falsity. After considering two prominent definitions of falsity and presenting objections to each one, I propose a definition that avoids their problems.
     
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    Objective falsity is essential to lying: an argument from convergent evidence.John Turri - 2020 - Philosophical Studies 178 (6):2101-2109.
    This paper synthesizes convergent lines of evidence to evaluate the hypothesis that objective falsity is essential to lying. Objective accounts of lying affirm this hypothesis; subjective accounts deny it. Evidence from history, logic, social observation, popular culture, lexicography, developmental psychology, inference, spontaneous description, and behavioral experimentation strongly supports the hypothesis. Studies show that the only apparent evidence against the hypothesis is due to task substitution, i.e. ethical concerns or perspective-taking interfering with performance on categorization tasks. I conclude that, overall, (...)
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    Falsifying the falsity criterion: a reply to Porcher.Hane Htut Maung - 2015 - Dialogues in Philosophy, Mental and Neuro Sciences 8 (1):32-33.
    In an article in a previous issue of this journal, I argue against the falsity criterion in the definition of delusion by presenting cases of delusions that are not false. I thank José Eduardo Porcher for his thought-provoking reply to my article. Although Porcher agrees that the falsity criterion is incorrect, he argues that my method of showing this is unsatisfactory on the grounds that it relies on a pre-defined conception of delusion.
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    Falsity, negation and modality: reply to Luiz Carlos Pereira.O. Chateaubriand - 2004 - Manuscrito 27 (1):193-200.
    In §1 I explain that my rejection of possible states of affairs as a basis for an account of falsity is not part of a general rejection of modal notions but is a rejection of possible and impossible entities of any sort. I then show that my account of senses and of propositions is indeed a modal account. In §2 I examine some of Wittgenstein’s ideas about falsity, as presented by Luiz Carlos, in relation to my account of (...)
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    (1 other version)Constructible falsity.David Nelson - 1949 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 14 (1):16-26.
  10. Descartes on the material falsity of ideas.Richard W. Field - 1993 - Philosophical Review 102 (3):309-333.
    Descartes claims in the Third Meditation that ideas of sense might be materially false. While an accurate interpretation of this claim has the potential of providing some valuable insights into Descartes's theory of ideas in general and his understanding of the epistemic status of sensations in particular, the explanation Descartes provides of the material falsity of ideas is itself obscure and misleading, making accurate interpretation difficult. In this paper an interpretation of material falsity is offered which identifies the (...)
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  11. Constructible falsity and inexact predicates.Ahmad Almukdad & David Nelson - 1984 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 49 (1):231-233.
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    The Falsity.Nick Chater & Mike Oaksford - 1996 - In William T. O'Donohue & Richard F. Kitchener (eds.), The philosophy of psychology. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications. pp. 244.
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    Negation, denial and falsity: Logic's negative trio.Simon Hewitt - 2021 - Ratio 34 (2):109-117.
    Negation, denial and falsity lie at the heart of debates about logic. We set out the classical account of the relationship between negation and denial, owing to Frege and Geach. We then challenge this on the basis that it does not permit an adequate account of falsity. A dialetheic alternative is minuted and criticised before a novel rejectivist account is proposed according to which falsity is the aim of the speech‐act of denial, whilst negation embeds deniability into (...)
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  14. Material falsity in Descartes, Arnauld, and Suarez.Norman J. Wells - 1984 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 22 (1):25-50.
    Arnauld's criticisms as "a model of confusion confounded.” In a review of Wilson's book, R. McRae refers to "the difficult and not too coherent subject of material falsity. '' J. Cottingham describes the Descartes-Arnauld debate on the material falsity of adventitious ideas as "an involved and rather inconclusive exchange " and claims that the example of the material falsity of such ideas espoused by Descartes in Meditation III is "needlessly complicated. " A. Kenny, in turn, notes that (...)
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    Falsity Conditions for IF-Sentences.Francien Dechesne - 2005 - Philosophia Scientiae 9 (2):305-322.
    We give a procedure to obtain falsity conditions for IF-sentences, using Skolemization. The expressive power of an IF-sentence can then be strongly captured by a pair of Σ11-sentences. A result from [Burgess 2003] shows that, conversely, any pair of incompatible Σ11-sentences corresponds with an IF-sentence.In the second part, we reflect on the influence of the order of the steps (inside-out versus outside-in) in the Skolemization procedures for IF-logic. We also reflect on the nature of game theoretical negation.
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  16. Truth, Falsity, and Borderline Cases.Timothy Williamson - 2000 - Philosophical Topics 28 (1):211-244.
    According to the principle of bivalence, truth and falsity are jointly exhaustive and mutually exclusive options for a statement. It is either true or false, and not both, even in a borderline case. That highly controversial claim is central to the epistemic theory of vagueness, which holds that borderline cases are distinguished by a special kind of obstacle to knowing the truth-value of the statement. But this paper is not a defence of the epistemic theory. If bivalence holds, it (...)
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  17. Indicatives, Subjunctives, and the Falsity of the Antecedent.Niels Skovgaard-Olsen & Peter Collins - 2021 - Cognitive Science 45 (11):e13058.
    It is widely held that there are important differences between indicative conditionals (e.g. “If the authors are linguists, they have written a linguistics paper”) and subjunctive conditionals (e.g. “If the authors had been linguists, they would have written a linguistics paper”). A central difference is that indicatives and subjunctives convey different stances towards the truth of their antecedents. Indicatives (often) convey neutrality: for example, about whether the authors in question are linguists. Subjunctives (often) convey the falsity of the antecedent: (...)
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    Faith & falsity.Albert Visser - 2004 - Annals of Pure and Applied Logic 131 (1-3):103-131.
    A theory T is trustworthy iff, whenever a theory U is interpretable in T, then it is faithfully interpretable. In this paper we give a characterization of trustworthiness. We provide a simple proof of Friedman’s Theorem that finitely axiomatized, sequential, consistent theories are trustworthy. We provide an example of a theory whose schematic predicate logic is complete Π20.
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  19. The falsities of Guarniero di Rochefort in the'Contra Amaurianos'. Roscellino di Compiegne, the Cathars and Amalrico di Bene.P. Lucentini - 2005 - Giornale Critico Della Filosofia Italiana 1 (2):269-297.
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    Subjects, falsity, commitment.Jason Xenakis - 1963 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 6 (1-4):234 – 241.
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  21. Interrogatives, imperatives, truth, falsity and lies.Henry S. Leonard - 1959 - Philosophy of Science 26 (3):172-186.
    This paper aims to establish three major theses: (1) Not only declarative sentences, but also interrogatives and imperatives, may be classified as true or as false. (2) Declarative, imperative, and interrogative utterances may also be classified as honest or as dishonest. (3) Whether an utterance is honest or dishonest is logically independent of whether it is true or is false. The establishment of the above theses follows upon the adoption of a principle for identifying what is meant by any sentence, (...)
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  22. Falsity and the False in Aristotle's Metaphysics D.Spyridon Rangos - 2009 - Rhizai. A Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science 11:7-21.
    In Metaphysics Delta 29 Aristotle distinguishes three classes of falsity and three corresponding senses of the ‘false’. The paper examines Aristotle’s arguments from a close-reading perspective, and analyses the meaning of false ‘as a thing’ , the significance of Aristotle’s dispute with Antisthenes on the subject of contradiction and verbal falsehood, and Aristotle’s conception of the false person. By paying attention to the precise order of Aristotle’s presentation, the paper raises the question about the manner in which the three (...)
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  23. Counterfactual antecedent falsity and the epistemic sensitivity of counterfactuals.Brian Leahy - 2018 - Philosophical Studies 175 (1):45-69.
    Why do utterances of counterfactual conditionals typically, but not universally, convey the message that their antecedents are false? I demonstrate that two common theoretical commitments–commitment to the existence of scalar implicature and of informative presupposition—can be supplemented with an independently motivated theory of the presuppositions of competing conditional alternatives to jointly predict this information when and only when it appears. The view works best if indicative and counterfactual conditionals have a closely related semantics, so I conclude by undermining two familiar (...)
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    The falsity of folk theories: Implications for psychology and philosophy.Nick Chater & Mike Oaksford - 1996 - In William T. O'Donohue & Richard F. Kitchener (eds.), The philosophy of psychology. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications. pp. 244--256.
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    Pleasure and Falsity.Terence Penelhum - 1964 - American Philosophical Quarterly 1 (2):81 - 91.
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  26. Liberating classical negation from falsity conditions.Damian Szmuc & Hitoshi Omori - 2022 - Proceedings of the 52nd International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic (ISMVL 2022).
    In one of their papers, Michael De and Hitoshi Omori observed that the notion of classical negation is not uniquely determined in the context of so-called Belnap-Dunn logic, and in fact there are 16 unary operations that qualify to be called classical negation. These varieties are due to different falsity conditions one may assume for classical negation. The aim of this paper is to observe that there is an interesting way to make sense of classical negation independent of (...) conditions. We discuss two equivalent semantics, and offer a Hilbert-style system that is sound and complete with respect to the semantics. (shrink)
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    Falsity in Practice.James K. Feibleman - 1965 - Tulane Studies in Philosophy 14:19-43.
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  28. Moral Falsity in the Eyes of the Superhuman: The Cases of Socrates and Mozi.Yumi Suzuki - 2017 - Frontiers of Philosophy in China 4 (12):515-532.
    Both Socrates and Mozi are said in Plato’s dialogues and in the Mozi respectively to have claimed that they are living a sort of life following superhuman “intention”: Socrates according to the Delphic oracle, and Mozi the intention of heaven. Some modern philosophers show discomfort with their “superstitious” attitudes, taking the claims literally as a kind of groundless devotion, while others conjecture “sensible” purposes to understand the mystic elements as providing moral lessons. This paper, by responding to these modern revisions (...)
     
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    Monadic Truth and Falsity.Richard Davies - 2023 - Phenomenology and Mind 24:56-62.
    In Adelaster (2016), A. G. Conte proposes a distinction between de dicto and de re attributions of truth and falsity, which he illustrates mostly with documents of legal standing, but also with an artificial object (a false tooth). The present aim is to propose an analogous distinction between monadic (one-place) and polyadic uses of “true” and “false”, and to sketch some features of its logical functioning with closer attention to the monadic pole than is usual. One proposal is that, (...)
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    History and falsity: Trust issues in early modern science: Marco Beretta and Maria Conforti : Fakes!? Hoaxes, counterfeits, and deception in early modern science. Sagamore Beach, MA: Science History Publications/usa, 2014, xv+280pp, $47.96 PB.Paolo Savoia - 2015 - Metascience 24 (3):421-424.
    As is made clear by the exergue by Carlo Ginzburg at the beginning of the introduction to the volume, the topic of fakes, forgeries, deceptions, and hoaxes in early modern science touches upon several crucial issues for historians of science, such as the possibilities of disentangling the true from the false in writing history, and to assess criteria of demarcations of truth and falsity in knowledge. Moreover, dealing with fakes also means going beyond rigid disciplinary boundaries. Indeed, the editors (...)
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    Does lying require objective falsity?Alex Wiegmann - 2023 - Synthese 202 (2):1-21.
    Does lying require objective falsity? Given that consistency with ordinary language is a desideratum of a philosophical definition of lying, empirical evidence plays an important role. A literature review reveals that studies employing a simple question-and-response format, such as “Did the speaker lie? [Yes/No]”, favour the subjective view of lying, according to which objective falsity is not required. However, it has recently been claimed that the rate of lie attributions found in those studies is artificially inflated due to (...)
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    Legal truths and falsities.Matthew Noah Smith - 2009 - Ratio Juris 22 (1):95-109.
    This paper has a two-pronged thesis. First, laws should be understood as making factual claims about the moral order. Second, the truth or falsity of these claims depends as much on the content of the law as on whether the lawmaker has political authority. In particular, laws produced by legitimate authorities are successful as laws when they guide subjects’ behavior by giving subjects authoritative reasons for action. This paper argues that laws produced by legitimate authorities accomplish this task by (...)
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    Legal Truths and Falsities.Matthewnoah Smith - 2009 - Ratio Juris 22 (1):95-109.
    This paper has a two‐pronged thesis. First, laws should be understood as making factual claims about the moral order. Second, the truth or falsity of these claims depends as much on the content of the law as on whether the lawmaker has political authority. In particular, laws produced by legitimate authorities are successful as laws when they guide subjects' behavior by giving subjects authoritative reasons for action. This paper argues that laws produced by legitimate authorities accomplish this task (i) (...)
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    The Falsity of Non-Judgmental Cognitions in Descartes and Suárez.Claudia Lorena García - 2000 - Modern Schoolman 77 (3):199-216.
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  35. What is a genuine intuitionistic notion of falsity?Yaroslav Shramko - 2012 - Logic and Logical Philosophy 21 (1):3-23.
    I highlight the importance of the notion of falsity for a semantical consideration of intuitionistic logic. One can find two principal (and non-equivalent) versions of such a notion in the literature, namely, falsity as non-truth and falsity as truth of a negative proposition. I argue in favor of the first version as the genuine intuitionistic notion of falsity.
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    Transparency and falsity in Descartes's theory of ideas.Claudia Lorena Garcia - 1999 - International Journal of Philosophical Studies 7 (3):349 – 372.
    Here I develop an interpretation of Descartes' theory of ideas which differs from the standard reading in that it incorporates a distinction between what an idea appears to represent and what it represents. I argue that this interpretation not only finds support in the texts but also is required to explain a large number of assertions in Descartes which would otherwise appear irremediably obscure or problematic. For example, in my interpretation it is not puzzling that Descartes responds to Arnauld's difficulty (...)
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    Truth and falsity of verbal statements as conditioned stimuli in classical and differential eyelid conditioning.Robert A. Fleming, David A. Grant & Jane A. North - 1968 - Journal of Experimental Psychology 78 (1):178.
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    Truth and falsity in colour perception.Thomas Baker - unknown
    Two principal questions lie at the heart of the philosophy of colour perception. First: how do colour experiences represent the world? Second: do colour representations veridically represent the world? This collection of papers closely examines the various ways in which colour experience may represent the world, and the possibilities regarding the veridicality of these representations. As it turns out, close attention to the above two questions illuminates novel ways of approaching the metaphysics of colour and colour experience. Paper one distinguishes (...)
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    Falsity and reality: an Advaita approach.Mridula Bhattacharyya - 2015 - Kolkata, India: Maha Bodhi Book Agency.
  40. Falsity without Negative Predication: On Sophistes255e‐263d.Job van Eck - 1995 - Phronesis 40 (1):20-47.
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    Comments on "Pleasure and Falsity".Arnold Isenberg - 1964 - American Philosophical Quarterly 1 (2):96 - 100.
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  42. Appearance and falsity: The dual nature of political order in the works of Pascal.J. F. Spitz - 1997 - Revue Internationale de Philosophie 51 (199):101-118.
     
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    Exactly true and non-falsity logics meeting infectious ones.Alex Belikov & Yaroslav Petrukhin - 2020 - Journal of Applied Non-Classical Logics 30 (2):93-122.
    In this paper, we study logical systems which represent entailment relations of two kinds. We extend the approach of finding ‘exactly true’ and ‘non-falsity’ versions of four-valued logics that emerged in series of recent works [Pietz & Rivieccio (2013). Nothing but the truth. Journal of Philosophical Logic, 42(1), 125–135; Shramko (2019). Dual-Belnap logic and anything but falsehood. Journal of Logics and their Applications, 6, 413–433; Shramko et al. (2017). First-degree entailment and its relatives. Studia Logica, 105(6), 1291–1317] to the (...)
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  44. Extensions of the basic constructive logic for weak consistency BKc1 defined with a falsity constant.Gemma Robles - 2007 - Logic and Logical Philosophy 16 (4):311-322.
    The logic BKc1 is the basic constructive logic for weak consistency in the ternary relational semantics without a set of designated points. In this paper, a number of extensions of B Kc1 defined with a propositional falsity constant are defined. It is also proved that weak consistency is not equivalent to negation-consistency or absolute consistency in any logic included in positive contractionless intermediate logic LC plus the constructive negation of BKc1 and the contraposition axioms.
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  45. On an Alleged Truth/Falsity Asymmetry in Context Shifting Experiments.Nat Hansen - 2012 - Philosophical Quarterly 62 (248):530-545.
    Keith DeRose has argued that context shifting experiments should be designed in a specific way in order to accommodate what he calls a ‘truth/falsity asymmetry’. I explain and critique DeRose's reasons for proposing this modification to contextualist methodology, drawing on recent experimental studies of DeRose's bank cases as well as experimental findings about the verification of affirmative and negative statements. While DeRose's arguments for his particular modification to contextualist methodology fail, the lesson of his proposal is that there is (...)
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  46. (2 other versions)Plato on Falsity: "Sophist" 263B.David Keyt - 1973 - Phronesis 18:285.
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    The Advaita concept of falsity.Nirod Baran Chakravarty - 1967 - Calcutta,: Sanskrit College.
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  48. Truth and Falsity Attributions and Truth-Conditional Semantics in Private Languages.Jody Azzouni - 2017 - In The Rule-Following Paradox and its Implications for Metaphysics. Cham: Springer Verlag.
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  49. Valid Deductions for Falsity-Default Logics.Richard Epstein - 1992 - Reports on Mathematical Logic:89-95.
     
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  50. Quarter Truths, Half Falsities and Plain Lies.José Félix Tobar-Arbulu - 1986 - Epistemologia 9 (1):77.
     
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