Relation between contingency and language

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Exploring Truth and Contingency in Language

Test your knowledge and understanding of the intricate relationship between language and truth. This quiz challenges you to think deeply about philosophical concepts and their implications in our understanding of reality.

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10 Thought-provoking questions
Multiple choice and open-ended formats
Engage with critical philosophical ideas

10 Questions2 MinutesCreated by ContemplatingMind42

In the light of contingency and the truth, what kind of philosophers stand against each other? (two answers correct)

Philosophers who contradict scientific facts vs the subjective

Philosophers who do not believe in truth and take no pride in looking for it

Philosophers who science as a violation of the human mind

Philosophers who see science as a human activity, rather than a place of a 'hard' reality

Kant and Hegel, both German idealists, had a certain opinion about what truth consisted of. Why was this idea short-lived?

They had no embodyment for the definition of the human mind

Their view of the truth was fairly one-sided and took everything the world proposed to them

Their view of the truth was to contradictory to what was believed by other philosophers

They could not deny the intrinsic nature of mind, matter and the world

How would we as humans stop the traditional philosophical search for the truth?

By adopting new vocabularies to explain phenomena

By ignoring the standard assumptions humans make

By seeing the world as the fundamental place to look for the truth

When we stop looking at vocabularies as "fitting/not fitting the world"

Which proposition is not a subset of contingent propositions?

Tautologies

Possible propositions

Contradictions

Pleonasms

A contradiction is a proposition that is necessarily false, no matter what the consequences are. Think of one.

A possible proposition is a proposition which can be true under certain circumstances. Think of one. (If you do not know, maths might give you an insight :)

Relation between contingency and language

Exploring Truth and Contingency in Language

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