What is Truth
What is Truth?
HZT4U1
2013/12/04
Khalid Mohamed
For thousands of years the pursuit of knowledge and the definition of fact plagued philosophers. In order to define what knowledge truly is, fact must be defined as well. If something is a fact, then that must mean that it is truth. Facts and knowledge coexist with truth due to facts being true and incorrect statements being false. Ergo, knowledge can be seen as truth. Then the counterpart of truth; error is one of the main problems of the knowledge of truth (The Problems of Philosophy, 12). However a question that is frequently pondered is “What is truth really?” In order to answer this obscure question philosophers have fabricated many theories. The most famous of these theories are the correspondence and coherence theory. Other theories of truth use said theories as a foundation that later branch off into different directions (Encyclopaedia Britannica). I will examine the strengths and weaknesses of both correspondence and coherence theory while finally using the flaws and benefits of both theories to state my position on how truth is strictly subjective.
“To say of what is that it is, or of what is not that it is not, is true” (Encyclopedia Britannica). A quote from the renowned philosopher Aristotle where the “What is” or “What is not” is what the world offers us, essentially the material world, thus making the act of stating the “What is” as truth (Encyclopaedia Britannica). This quote allows people to understand the basis or the essence of correspondence theory. Correspondence theory is fundamentally tying in truth with what occurs around a person to a general degree which may lead to perspective related issues. This means that if something occurs or if something is and this something corresponds with what we believe or say then that is truth (Glanzberg). Accompanying this theory are common strengths and weaknesses.
A strength that coincides with
HZT4U1
2013/12/04
Khalid Mohamed
For thousands of years the pursuit of knowledge and the definition of fact plagued philosophers. In order to define what knowledge truly is, fact must be defined as well. If something is a fact, then that must mean that it is truth. Facts and knowledge coexist with truth due to facts being true and incorrect statements being false. Ergo, knowledge can be seen as truth. Then the counterpart of truth; error is one of the main problems of the knowledge of truth (The Problems of Philosophy, 12). However a question that is frequently pondered is “What is truth really?” In order to answer this obscure question philosophers have fabricated many theories. The most famous of these theories are the correspondence and coherence theory. Other theories of truth use said theories as a foundation that later branch off into different directions (Encyclopaedia Britannica). I will examine the strengths and weaknesses of both correspondence and coherence theory while finally using the flaws and benefits of both theories to state my position on how truth is strictly subjective.
“To say of what is that it is, or of what is not that it is not, is true” (Encyclopedia Britannica). A quote from the renowned philosopher Aristotle where the “What is” or “What is not” is what the world offers us, essentially the material world, thus making the act of stating the “What is” as truth (Encyclopaedia Britannica). This quote allows people to understand the basis or the essence of correspondence theory. Correspondence theory is fundamentally tying in truth with what occurs around a person to a general degree which may lead to perspective related issues. This means that if something occurs or if something is and this something corresponds with what we believe or say then that is truth (Glanzberg). Accompanying this theory are common strengths and weaknesses.
A strength that coincides with