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Relative Truth, The Correspondence Principle and Absolute Truth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Leszek Nowak
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The present paper is intended to take up the basic issue in Marxist epistemology: does the development of human cognition include mechanisms that ensure the attainment of, or approximation to, the absolute truth?

But to take up this issue we have to define the concept of absolute truth. This is why the paper begins with comment on the assumptions we adopt. This is followed by explanations of the concept of the absolute truth and that of relative truth and some of derivative concepts, too. Section 3 is concerned with the problem of whether the absolute truth is attainable, and with the role played in the process by the correspondence principle, which is reconstructed in a specified way.

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Philosophy of Science , Volume 42 , Issue 2 , June 1975 , pp. 187 - 202
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Copyright © 1975 by the Philosophy of Science Association

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