Meanings
- uncountablehuman sciencesThe definition of truth such that a theory is true if there is a relationship of adequation or equivalence between the facts or state of the world and the details and implications of the theory.
The antecedent of this argument is Gorgias' treatment of language in his On non-being, but inverted and used as an instrument to restore adequationism.
2022, Enrico Volpe, Le vie dell'essere: Studi sulla ricezione antica di Parmenide, page 1462 more examples
Given the explication of "ideal coherence" at issue in the principles (P1) and (P2) […] it emerges that adequationism and coherentism are effectively co-ordinated.
2012, N. Rescher, Forbidden Knowledge, page 25Adequationism only makes sense in the assumption that matter has a prior isomorphic structure preceding the supposed structure that the forms must also have themselves.
2013, Gustavo Bueno, Sciences as Categorical Closures, page 41
Origin
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