Philosophy Now Forum

I used to despise religious people because of their childish attachment to a fictional deity and their lack of insight into their own hopes and fears. But now I have only pity and compassion for the religious. After all, there but for the grace of God go I.

So you are saying that the correspondence theory of truth is rubbish? Actually, no. If I had wanted to say that I would have written: "The correspondence theory of truth is rubbish". What I did say was (a) Aristotle's account of truth has several often unacknowledged merits and (b) It doe...

I think it's too easy to skim read Aristotle's account, which I find common-sensical "Truth is to say...." ...... In the whole of Aristotle's definition nothing is claimed to correspond to anything else. Truth is a property of statements. It is not, for example, a relation of corresponden...

The common sense understanding of truth is the correspondence theory of truth. From now on referred to as CTT. If the CTT is true,what does it refer to? Another CTT? Depending on your perspective that is a tautology or an infinite regress. So what is truth? PS;The CTT is the theory that a propositi...