Truth Quotes

"Truth is not correspondence but rather coherence within a web of beliefs and experience."

"The objective world plays an essential role in determining what our thoughts mean."

"Truth conditions for thoughts are determined by what makes them true in the world."

"The clearest truths are those grounded in our most stable causal relations."

"Truth is discovered through the continuous dialogue between belief and reality."

"Coherence within belief systems tracks real patterns of causal interaction."

"The most fundamental truths concern the structure of causal relations."

"The truth-conditions of our thoughts connect us materially to the world."

"The unity of mind and world is not metaphysical but epistemological."

"We are only as sick as our secrets"

"We confabulate explanations for our own behavior all the time."

"The universe doesn't care about our preferences."

"Grand narratives often obscure rather than illuminate."

"Semantic content cannot be reduced to physical properties alone - meaning transcends matter."

"You can be a physicalist about the brain and a mentalist about the mind simultaneously."

"Mental causation is real causation, not some epiphenomenal shadow of physical causation."

"Meaning doesn't come from inside the head - it comes from the head's relation to the world."

"Mental content is determined by the actual causal history of mental states."

"The mind's job is to track the world, not to reflect some inner reality."

"Internalism about semantics is false, but that doesn't make externalism simple."

"Representation is the bridge between the physical brain and the rational mind."

"The semantic properties of mental states depend on facts about the external world."

"Cognitive science without neuroscience is incomplete, but neuroscience without cognitive science is blind."

"The brain is a physical object, but the mind is an abstract object - there's no contradiction here."

"The difference between minds and mindless matter is the presence of contentful states."

"The semantic theory of mind explains how physics and mentality can both be true."

"The concept of truth must be connected to human linguistic practices."

"Truth is an ideal we pursue through rational discourse and evidence."

"Truth-conditions are determined by the conventional use of our linguistic terms."

"Truth is what corresponds to reality, not merely what society believes."