True or False questions… Please let me know if the statement is either true or f

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True or False questions… Please let me know if the statement is either true or false..

1. The statement “there is no truth” is paradoxical.

2. On Kant’s view, uncertain knowledge isn’t knowledge at all

3. Kant rejected the rationalist idea that beliefs are made true by a direct correspondence between the contents of the mind and the state of the world.

4. A common criticism of pragmatism is that sometimes the truth of a belief matters, regardless of the successfulness of that belief.

5. American pragmatist William James held that belief in God ought not to be judged by whether or not God really exists, but by whether or not belief in God yields benefits that make belief worthwhile.

6. Kant held that all of our knowledge arises from experience.

7. Pragmatism holds that it is better to test beliefs for their successfulness than to engage in endless speculation about what is true.

8. Kant distinguished between two types of knowledge: a priori knowledge, or that which we can know before experience, and a posteriori knowledge, that which we can only know after experience.

9.Nietzsche supports his relativism through rejecting the correspondence theory of truth.

10. Pragmatists might defend their position by pointing out that the truth plays less of a role in our decision-making than detractors of pragmatism claim.

11. In his paper “Two Dogmas of Empiricism” Willard Van Orman Quine argued that there is no legitimate distinction between a priori and a posteriori knowledge.

12. Pragmatism shares its emphasis on discovery through experimentation with the epistemological position called “empiricism.”

13. Kant agreed with Hume that we can have no knowledge of cause and effect, since the concept of cause and effect does not refer to anything in the world.

Explanation / Answer

1) Answer: False

The statement “there is no truth” is paradoxical is False.

For the statement “there is no truth” to be true atleast the statement should be true.So it contradicts itself.

So it is an example of logical contradiction.

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