PP111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Correspondence Theory Of Truth, Instrumentalism
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Unit 12: theories of truth: video: "does science give us truth?" The correspondence theory of truth has a long history. It was already formulated by aristotle and has been the dominant philosophical view about the nature of truth for more than two millennia. Although occasional alternatives have emerged, it is only in this century that the correspondence theory has been under constant attack. The idea behind the correspondence theory of truth is so simple that at first it seems too obvious for anyone to deny it. According to this theory of truth, a statement or a belief is true whenever it corresponds to reality. That is, when what we say is so really is so, then what we say is true. If i say (or believe) that grass is green, then what i say (or believe) will be true if grass really is green. Described in this way, the correspondence theory of truth uses three components to explain truth.
