Can we truly know when something can be considered true or false. The truth can be something that appeals to a person, or that it can reason with a person's knowledge that they have already develop. The knowledge we possess can shape the way we think, so does this also change the in the truth that a person sees. Our knowledge also limits us to what we considered to be true. In our century every year we discover something new so our truth is constantly changing. One of the conflicts that also comes to mind when talking about true and false is whether a true belief counts as knowledge depends on inherently imprecise judgments concerning whether the believer is accidentally right. To analyze the claim I am going to look at the three different theories of truth and how in everything true there is a false aspect to it. The theories are first, the correspondence theory. Second, coherence theory, and lastly pragmatic theory.
The theory of Correspondence is a type of truth, that a statement is considered true if it corresponds to a fact. In this theory one can defined that truth to be something that is not said by someone else, or because it feels like its right, but it is from facts that can be found in reality. This theory basically covers what people have in common that they believe in making it the truth to the person and to other people. Fact is considered to be something that is realistic, something that is existing or that has already happen. For example I know for a fact that people are able to travel out of space. In the other hand there are some things that can be considered negative false, which leads to the theory of correspondence to have a false claim to it. Facts can some times have a tendency of having a great genera...
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...t that is a false statement. While the coherence theory finds a way to reduce the correspondence theory and makes the truth be purely social or divine construct. The pragmatic theory underestimate the truth of certain propositions, so the rule doesn't apply to every occasion or statement. At the same time it reducing the coherence theory. No one can exactly say what is true and what is false, it would all depend in the believe of the person. Since everyone has a tendency on believing in something then everyone has their own definition of what is that they claim to be true or false.
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The definition of truth is the epitome of what we we all perceive to be reality. Truth is what we sometimes think about in the back of our head, but we are unsure of whether this truth is really “true.” The objective correlative is another term that is used to refer to truth. The objective correlative is getting enough people to feel the same emotion and agree upon it. Objective correlative also refers to the objective truth or the facts. It’s trying to get the subjective truth to become objective, then subjective for each person. The idea of objectivity is that it is concrete, measurable, and tested. This idea of objectivity relates to the characteristics of what facts are.
We as humans tend to have an unquenchable thirst for knowledge. We look for knowledge about everybody and everything that surrounds us in our day-to-day life. Sadly though, we must accept that in the grand scheme of life we (as a society) tend to put pleasure above our quest for knowledge. The pursuit of knowledge tends to take time and energy, two things we call invaluable, and it also shows us things that might depress us. Contrastingly, ignorance takes no time and energy.
That's why a series of half-truths and exaggerations are each a small part of the truth. The truth is an enigmatic cloud, a mystery; at its very core is truth. This truth can never be obtained, only hinted upon. The ideas that make up this cloud are each different yet circle a similar theme, which is the real truth. Some of these concepts may be at opposite ends and completely dissimilar, but are each a part of the truth.
Correspondence theory of truth determines a true statement by seeing how it relates and corresponds with the world
to regard or to accept what is being said is true, but it does not
Lagemaat, Richard van de. Theory of Knowledge for the IB Diploma. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
The philosopher, Linda Zagzebski, offers a virtue based definition of knowledge. She arrives at this definition by presenting numerous accounts of knowledge definitions that fail, explore why they fail, then shows how her theory satisfies knowledge criteria.
Rorty criticized this theory of truth as part of his argument to drop the distinction between objective and subjective (Pojman 250). He stated the concept of truth should apply equally to all disciplines, science, considered the objective, as well as humanities and arts, often referred to as subjective. Rorty believed the emphasis of weight placed on truth should not vary between disciplines (Pojman 250). Rorty defended this by claiming that if the distinction between truth as correspondence to reality and truth as well-justified beliefs was eliminated; society would be better off (Pojman 251). He alleged pragmatists do not believe one thing is relative to another, and there should not be any difference between knowledge and opinion. Additionally, Rorty claimed pragmatists do not have a theory of truth (Pojman
The objective truth is a reality that cannot be argued independent of time, and the subjective truth is humanity 's understanding of reality dependent on time. In the first premise, it states that truth is what is real; this is a fact because anything that is real in life cannot be disputed therefore it is truth. Human understanding of truth on the other hand, changes over time. It is because of this that truth is two things, objective and subjective. Objective truth is something that cannot be disputed, it is a worldly truth that will never be argued because there is an absolute answer for it. Subjective truth is human’s understanding of a non-provable truth dependent on time. This reasoning is dependent on time due to technological and scientific advances that come with increasing years. For example, eight hundred years ago, it was a subjective truth that the world was flat, but as the years progressed, it was disproved through technology and science. It is due to objective truth being much less common, there are not many things that cannot be disputed in our real world, that subjective truth is the most widely spread thing in today’s world. This syllogism is cogent because it takes into account every perspective of what truth is, was, and will be in the future, maintaining all objective truths that are independent of time. This is in accordance with my
...ll, or is the pragmatist theory correct? Perhaps, then, the pragmatist theory is closest to how humans behave, even if how we behave is not always in accordance with an ultimate truth.
Truth can be defined as conformity to reality or actuality and in order for something to be “true” it must be public, eternal, and independent. If the “truth” does not follow these guidelines then it cannot be “true.” Obviously in contrary anything that goes against the boundaries of “truth” is inevitably false. True and false, in many cases does not seem to be a simple black and white situation, there could sometimes be no grounds to decide what is true and what is false. All truths are a matter of opinion. Truth is relative to culture, historical era, language, and society. All the truths that we know are subjective truths (i.e. mind-dependent truths) and there is nothing more to truth than what we are willing to assert as true (Hammerton, Matthew). A thing to me can be true while for the other person it may not be true. So it depends from person to person and here the role of perception comes into play. As truth is a vital part of our knowledge, the distinctions between what is true and what is false, shape and form the way we think and should therefore be considered of utmost importance. We often face this situation in real life through our learning curves and our pursuit of knowledge to distinguish between what is true and what is false. The idea of there being an absolute truth or also known as universal truth has been debated for centuries. It depends on many factors such as reason, perception and emotion.
van de Lagemaat, R. (2011) Theory of knowledge for the IB diploma, Cambridge University Press.
Lagemaat, Richard Van De. Theory of Knowledge for the IB Diploma. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2005. Print.
Whether someone's belief is true is not a prerequisite for belief. On the other hand, if something is actually known, then it categorically cannot be false. For example, if a person believes that a bridge is safe enough to support him, and attempts to cross it, but the bridge then collapses under his weight, it could be said that he believed that the bridge was safe but that his belief was mistaken. It would not be accurate to say that he knew that the bridge was safe, because plainly it was not. By contrast, if the bridge actually supported his weight, then he might say that he had believed that the bridge was safe, whereas now, after proving it to himself, he knows it was