Topic > Theories of truth - 1004

Truth is often something that people take for granted. We believe that because we witness or experience something, then it is true. A color-blind person may see a red table as gray and say that the table is gray, claiming that it is the truth even when everyone else says that the table is red. As humans, we have a tendency to base truth on personal experience, even if we are wrong. In fact, even the majority of people within a community have misunderstood the truth. A few centuries ago it was believed that the world was flat, and if you sailed far enough, you would literally fall off the edge of the Earth. As absurd as it may seem today, in the past it was considered an undeniable truth. Interestingly, this also happens with less material truths. Take, for example, the moral concepts of slavery. In recent history our supposed truth on the subject has undergone a dramatic shift. While previously slavery was seen as the norm, even a right (based on beliefs of superiority), it is now vehemently rejected. For this reason, the human idea of ​​truth is constantly changing. It can be argued that we don't know what is true and what is not. In fact, our history supports that statement considering how often we contradict our beliefs that we assume to be true. What, then, is the most acceptable theory of truth? Perhaps it is none of the four: correspondence, coherence, pragmatic and deflationary. Each of them undeniably has enormous flaws that cause the theory to fail to provide an explanation of the truth. Take, for example, the correspondence theory according to which a truth must correspond to a fact. First we need to define what it is. Perhaps a definition is something that can be physically verified and always be true. What then about moral truths? The theo correspondence... half of the paper... ll, or is the pragmatist theory correct? Perhaps, then, pragmatist theory is closest to the behavior of human beings, even if the way we behave does not always conform to an ultimate truth. Ultimately, no current definition of truth satisfies me. I can't even convince myself of my beliefs about truth; there is always a contradiction and a flaw. Perhaps the question of everyday use is not of truths, but of goodness. That is, we should focus on doing good for ourselves, others, humanity and the world. Of course, there is the insatiable curiosity that rests in human beings and, above all, in philosophers. We seek the truth even if it escapes us effortlessly and for this reason we cannot reject it so easily. It is an integral part of our life; after all, if we find the truth then we will be able to answer many other philosophical questions as well, including about the meaning of humanity.