What is Truth?
Possible definitions:
-what can be proven
-The Facts
-What people agree
-Perception (Relativist view of Truth)
-Belief
-The opposite of false
Truth is a quality that applies to:
sentence (linguistic)
belief (mental)
propositions (logical)
Ex.
Prop: I speak French
Sent: I speak French
Se parle le Francais
Belief: Someone thinks Prof. Barrowdale speaks French
Knowledge entails Truth
Truth = Belief + Justification
Justifications
-reasons
-evidence
-proof
" [...] it [the false] if speaks of things that are not, as if they were" -Plato
Correspondence Theory of Truth:
Truth is what corresponds to reality
I.e.
The book is on the desk.
This proposition is true if the book is on the desk, and false if it isn't.