Status of Knowledge
Truth
The property a claim has when things are as it says they are. Whether truth is correspondence to a world, coherence within a system, or what enquiry would settle on in the long run is itself contested, and different areas of knowledge lean on different answers.
How secure or true a claim is. These concepts ask what we are entitled to say about a claim once it is supported: whether it is settled, whether it could be wrong, and whether its standing depends on who is asking.
Situations that raise truth
All 9 situationsReal cases a class can argue about, where this concept is what is actually at stake.
- Perpetrators, re-enactingSoutheast Asia
- Baghdad's translation centuryThe Middle East and North Africa
- Inheriting an actor's nameEast Asia
- Calculus before Newton, in KeralaIndia
- A film industry the textbooks missedAfrica
- A film, a queen, and a fight over the pastIndia
- Mountains that were never seenEast Asia
- Reconstruction surgery in an ancient compendiumIndia