Week 2: Truth

Question 1

What is the correspondence principle?

Answer 1

It is true if it corresponds to how things really are in the real world

Question 2

Why don’t we say “True for me”?

Answer 2

Saying “true for me” is at odds with the correspondence principle because your belief doesn’t correspond with the world

Question 3

What is a sentence?

Answer 3

A string of words

Question 4

What is a proposition?

Answer 4

a thought or idea that a sentence expresses

Question 5

True or false: Two different sentences can express the same proposition

Answer 5

True

Question 6

True or false: The same sentence can express two different propositions

Answer 6

True. E.g. Bob and John both did the dishes

Question 7

True or False: Every proposition has multiple truth values

Answer 7

False. This is at odds with the correspondence principle

Question 8

What is an Interrogative Sentence?

Answer 8

A sentence used to ask questions

Question 9

What is an imperative sentence?

Answer 9

A sentence used to give commands

Question 10

What is a declaritive sentence?

Answer 10

A sentence used to describe things, the only sentence that can be true or false