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Does Socrates vindicate the coherence theory of truth?

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Within Plato's Socratic Dialogues we routinely observe the character of Socrates employing a formal, yet largely unexplained method of investigation into the beliefs that his interlocutors hold as true. Socrates even goes so far as to claim there will be discord within them their whole life should they not be able refute one of his controversial and counter-intuitive revealed truths. With the beliefs under investigation striking to the core of how one should live a good life, this paper seeks to investigate whether Socrates' formal method justifies him in making the claims he does. After exposing the methodology of his technique, we turn to investigate the theory of truth that the method represents, seeking to ascertain a greater understanding of what truth means to Socrates when he makes the claim that a belief is true.
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Deane, W. (2011). Does Socrates vindicate the coherence theory of truth? Emergent Australasian Philosophers, 4(1).
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2011
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This is an article published in the journal: Emergent Australasian Philosophers. Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/