Does Socrates vindicate the coherence theory of truth?

Deane, Warren

Does Socrates vindicate the coherence theory of truth?

dc.contributor.author	Deane, Warren
dc.date.accessioned	2011-11-04T04:00:11Z
dc.date.available	2011-11-04T04:00:11Z
dc.date.issued	2011
dc.description.abstract	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.	en_NZ
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.identifier.citation	Deane, W. (2011). Does Socrates vindicate the coherence theory of truth? Emergent Australasian Philosophers, 4(1).	en_NZ
dc.identifier.issn	1837-5871
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10289/5857
dc.language.iso	en
dc.relation.uri	http://eap.philosophy-australia.com/index.php/eap/article/view/33	en_NZ
dc.rights	This is an article published in the journal: Emergent Australasian Philosophers. Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/	en_NZ
dc.subject	philosophy	en_NZ
dc.subject	Socrates	en_NZ
dc.subject	truth	en_NZ
dc.subject	Gorgias
dc.subject	coherence theory of truth
dc.subject	eristic
dc.subject	elenchus
dc.subject	the complete set
dc.title	Does Socrates vindicate the coherence theory of truth?	en_NZ
dc.type	Journal Article	en_NZ