What exactly is truth? If we look up the definition of truth it says, “The quality or state of being true.” We wonder what exactly does this mean? If we were to think about what is truth, we would discover that there is no defining line on what is true, and what is not true. There are several different theories on truth, which philosophers dispute. Truth is unalterable, it is lasting, and constant. Everyone has a different perspective on their truth. There is empirical truth that can be learned by observation. Or there is truth, truth that is defined by us, by our beliefs, by our experiences. This is where the problem lies, because our beliefs, and our experience may differ from someone else, giving them a different perspective on truth.
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Plato believed that reality comes from the mind of God, and as such is both rational and understandable, assuming that we are clever enough. Aristotle emphasized the importance of observation to our comprehension of natural phenomena and provided definition of correspondence that holds as a true statement or proposition reflects reality itself, “…it says of what is that is; and of what is not that is not” (Blackburn, 1994). This theory states that truth is, a relationship between a proposition is true, when it corresponds to an appropriate fact. This theory uses fact to determine what truth is. Meaning, for each true proposition, there must be a fact. A fact cannot be either true of false, it simply corresponds to the facts about the world. The correspondence theory of truth states, the truth or falsehood of a belief (proposition, statement) depends on its relationship to something that lies outside the belief itself. If one is true, then truth is agreement between beliefs (propositions, statements) and facts. Therefore, truth is agreement between beliefs (propositions, statements) and facts, the correspondence theory of truth is correct. Meaning, that a belief “agrees with” a fact or …show more content…
The second reason, we cannot step outside our own best system of belief, to see how well it is doing in terms of agreement to the world. To many people the weak point of the coherence theories is that it fails to include a proper sense of the way in which actual systems of belief are sustained by persons with perceptual experience, based upon their environment. For a coherence theorist, experience is only relevant at the source of perceptual beliefs. Meaning, that anything is true when is can be conceived, to think out clearly and logically, to hold many elements together in a connection necessitated by several
Plato believed that reality comes from the mind of God, and as such is both rational and understandable, assuming that we are clever enough. Aristotle emphasized the importance of observation to our comprehension of natural phenomena and provided definition of correspondence that holds as a true statement or proposition reflects reality itself, “…it says of what is that is; and of what is not that is not” (Blackburn, 1994). This theory states that truth is, a relationship between a proposition is true, when it corresponds to an appropriate fact. This theory uses fact to determine what truth is. Meaning, for each true proposition, there must be a fact. A fact cannot be either true of false, it simply corresponds to the facts about the world. The correspondence theory of truth states, the truth or falsehood of a belief (proposition, statement) depends on its relationship to something that lies outside the belief itself. If one is true, then truth is agreement between beliefs (propositions, statements) and facts. Therefore, truth is agreement between beliefs (propositions, statements) and facts, the correspondence theory of truth is correct. Meaning, that a belief “agrees with” a fact or …show more content…
The second reason, we cannot step outside our own best system of belief, to see how well it is doing in terms of agreement to the world. To many people the weak point of the coherence theories is that it fails to include a proper sense of the way in which actual systems of belief are sustained by persons with perceptual experience, based upon their environment. For a coherence theorist, experience is only relevant at the source of perceptual beliefs. Meaning, that anything is true when is can be conceived, to think out clearly and logically, to hold many elements together in a connection necessitated by several