Truth
Updated 2026-09-10
INTRODUCTION
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CORE DEFINITION
Truth is one of the central topics of philosophy, and one of the largest. It has been discussed for thousands of years, and a great many philosophical problems either depend on theses about truth or entail them, so it cannot be exhaustively treated in a short space. The main theories divide over the truth-bearer, whether belief, sentence, or proposition, and over whether truth is correspondence with fact, coherence with a belief system, or acceptance at the limit of inquiry.
SCAFFOLDING EFFECT
Reduce cognitive load
- Bearer location: settle whether the dispute concerns the truth of beliefs, sentences, or propositions. - Criterion choice: judge whether truth should be cashed out as correspondence, coherence, or the limit of inquiry. - Thesis decomposition: break the controversy about truth into several smaller questions that can be treated separately.
Anchor fast decisions
Theories of truth diverge on two points: what the truth-bearer is, and what property truth consists in, whether corresponding to facts, cohering with a system of beliefs, or being accepted at the limit of inquiry. Tarski gave a recursive characterization of the truth of compound sentences in terms of satisfaction, supplying a formal definition that does not appeal to the concept of a fact.
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- plato.stanford.eduhttps://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth/verified
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