ABSTRACT
Meliorative epistemology aims to guide our epistemic practice to better results, and better results means increasing true beliefs and avoiding false beliefs when our judgment is qualitative, and making the probability as close to the true value as possible when our judgment is quantitative. However, there are different conceptions of truth, and how we respond to Cartesian skepticism depends in part on the way we conceive of truth. It is therefore necessary to examine the different conceptions of truth, especially the two major conceptions in contemporary philosophy: the correspondence theory of truth and the deflationary theory of truth.
