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1. www.psychologytoday.com › 201808 › what-is-truthWhat Is Truth? - Psychology Today

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   Jun 25, 2024 · Truth is a property not so much of thoughts and ideas but more properly of beliefs and assertions. But to believe or assert something is not enough to make it true, or else the claim that ‘to ...

2. www.bethinking.org › truth › what-is-truthWhat is Truth? (on the Nature and Importance of Truth Today)

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   Truth and Correspondence. The correspondence view of truth, held by the vast majority of philosophers and theologians throughout history, holds that any declarative statement is true if and only if it corresponds to or agrees with factual reality, with the way things are. The statement, "The desk in my study is brown", is true only if there is ...

3. philosophynow.org › issues › 86What Is Truth? | Issue 86 | Philosophy Now

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   That is the wonder of consciousness. Truth is the single currency of the sovereign mind, the knowing subject, and the best thinking – in philosophy, science, art – discriminates between the objective and subjective sides of the coin, and appreciates both the unity of reality and the diversity of experience. Jon Wainwright, London.

4. theconversation.com › with-so-many-people-speakingWith so many people speaking ‘their truth’, how do we know ...

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   May 30, 2023 · Truth relativism. On its face, speaking about “my truth” or “your truth” suggests that truth is relative to an individual. Philosophers call this view “truth relativism”. It says that ...

5. philosophynews.com › what-is-truthWhat is Truth? - Philosophy News

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   Mar 22, 2015 · Specifically, correspondence theorists hold that there are a set of “truth-bearing” representations (propositions) about the world that align to or correspond with reality. When a proposition aligns to the way the world actually is, the proposition is said to be true. Truth, on this view, is that correspondence relation.

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6. philosophynow.org › issues › 149What Is Truth? | Issue 149 | Philosophy Now

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   Ethical Truth. Historically, it is through philosophy that the axiological has been rationally examined. The word ‘philosophy’ itself is derived from two Greek words, philia and sophia. Philia means ‘love’, sophia, ‘wisdom’, hence philosophy can be defined as ‘love of wisdom’.

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   Why is truth important in philosophy?

   • Truth is one of the central subjects in philosophy. It is also one of the largest. Truth has been a topic of discussion in its own right for thousands of years. Moreover, a huge variety of issues in philosophy relate to truth, either by relying on theses about truth, or implying theses about truth.

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   What does 'truth' mean?

   • ‘Truth’ has a variety of meanings, but the most common definitions refer to the state of being in accordance with facts or reality. There are various criteria, standards and rules by which to judge the truth that statements profess to claim.

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   Who knows what truth is?

   • Everyone knows perfectly well what truth is – everyone except Pontius Pilate and philosophers. Truth is the quality of being true, and being true is what some statements are. That is to say, truth is a quality of the propositions which underlie correctly-used statements.

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   What is the difference between truth and reality?

   • Facts are understood as simply those propositions which are true. There are true propositions and false ones, and facts just are true propositions. There is thus no “difference between truth and the reality to which it is supposed to correspond” (Moore, 1902, p. 21).

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   Is truth a statement?

   • Still, a definition is as good a place to start as any so here’s one: truth is a statement about the way the world actually is. Let’s explore how good that definition is! Suppose you examine an apple and determine that it’s red, sweet, smooth and crunchy. You might claim this is what the apple is.

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   Is truth a quality of being true?

   • Truth is the quality of being true, and being true is what some statements are. That is to say, truth is a quality of the propositions which underlie correctly-used statements. What does that mean?

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8. plato.stanford.edu › entries › truthTruth - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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   Jun 13, 2006 · Truth. Truth is one of the central subjects in philosophy. It is also one of the largest. Truth has been a topic of discussion in its own right for thousands of years. Moreover, a huge variety of issues in philosophy relate to truth, either by relying on theses about truth, or implying theses about truth.