The Nature of Truth

This article surveys different philosophical theories about the nature of truth. We give much importance to truth; some demand to know it, some fear it, and others would even die for it. But what exactly is truth? What is its nature? Does it even have a nature in the first place? When do we say that some truth-bearers are true? Philosophers offer varying answers to these questions. In this article, some of these answers are explored and some of the problems raised against them are presented

Martin Heidegger\u27s theory of understanding

The meaning of being can become transparent only through the analytic of Dasein. Since to be Dasein is to understand, the task of interpreting Heidegger\u27s theory of understanding becomes the more fundamental issue. Our interpretation of Heidegger\u27s theory of understanding recaptured the thought that it is impossible to understand something without understanding how to perform various actions on various entities. To understand how to do something, however, one must be capable of acting in order to reach an end conversely, one must understand how to do a range of things. To act in order to reach an end is to act so as to reach some future possibility of oneself. A such, understanding is always holistic, entailing a wide variety of entities and purposeful actions. A standardization of functions results in a community of beings who establish standard ends and communally shared ways of achieving those ends. Assertions, which are communally shared ways of achieving ends, can be true or false only insofar as they have roles within the purposive behavior of Dasein