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According to Ayer, "It is TRUE that it is raining" means
{ 1 } - "It is useful to believe that it is raining."
{ 2 } - "The claim that it is raining corresponds to an objective fact."
{ 3 } - "The belief that it is raining coheres with our other beliefs."
{ 4 } - "It is raining."
{ 5 } - "Our sensations show that it is raining."
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According to Ayer, "It is TRUE that it is raining" means
{ 1 } - "It is useful to believe that it is raining."
{ 2 } - "The claim that it is raining corresponds to an objective fact."
{ 3 } - "The belief that it is raining coheres with our other beliefs."
{ 4 } - "It is raining."
{ 5 } - "Our sensations show that it is raining."
This is the pragmatist theory of truth.
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According to Ayer, "It is TRUE that it is raining" means
{ 1 } - "It is useful to believe that it is raining."
{ 2 } - "The claim that it is raining corresponds to an objective fact."
{ 3 } - "The belief that it is raining coheres with our other beliefs."
{ 4 } - "It is raining."
{ 5 } - "Our sensations show that it is raining."
This is the correspondence theory of truth.
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According to Ayer, "It is TRUE that it is raining" means
{ 1 } - "It is useful to believe that it is raining."
{ 2 } - "The claim that it is raining corresponds to an objective fact."
{ 3 } - "The belief that it is raining coheres with our other beliefs."
{ 4 } - "It is raining."
{ 5 } - "Our sensations show that it is raining."
This is the coherence theory of truth.
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According to Ayer, "It is TRUE that it is raining" means
{ 1 } - "It is useful to believe that it is raining."
{ 2 } - "The claim that it is raining corresponds to an objective fact."
{ 3 } - "The belief that it is raining coheres with our other beliefs."
{ 4 } - "It is raining."
{ 5 } - "Our sensations show that it is raining."
By Ayer's redundancy theory of truth, "It is true that p" (where "p" is a statement) just means "p." In other words, to call a statement true is just to assert that statement.
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According to Ayer, "It is TRUE that it is raining" means
{ 1 } - "It is useful to believe that it is raining."
{ 2 } - "The claim that it is raining corresponds to an objective fact."
{ 3 } - "The belief that it is raining coheres with our other beliefs."
{ 4 } - "It is raining."
{ 5 } - "Our sensations show that it is raining."
This confuses "true" with "already verified." What is true may not have yet been verified.
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