Epistemology Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Truth=== {{Main|Truth}} [[Truth]] is the property or state of being in accordance with facts or reality.<ref name="SEP truth"/> On most views, truth is the correspondence of language or thought to a mind-independent world. This is called the [[correspondence theory of truth]]. Among philosophers who think that it is possible to analyze the conditions necessary for knowledge, virtually all of them accept that truth is such a condition. There is much less agreement about the extent to which a knower must know ''why'' something is true in order to know. On such views, something being known implies that it is true. However, this should not be confused for the more contentious view that one must know that one knows in order to know (the [[KK thesis|KK principle]]).<ref name="SEP Epistemology 2014"/> Epistemologists disagree about whether belief is the only [[truth-bearer]]. Other common suggestions for things that can bear the property of being true include [[propositions]], [[sentence (mathematical logic)|sentence]]s, [[thought]]s, [[utterance]]s, and [[judgment]]s. Plato, in his [[Gorgias (dialogue)|Gorgias]], argues that belief is the most commonly invoked truth-bearer.<ref name="Plato2008"/>{{clarify|date=June 2020}} Many of the debates regarding truth are at the crossroads of epistemology and [[logic]].<ref name="SEP truth"/> Some contemporary debates regarding truth include: How do we define truth? Is it even possible to give an informative definition of truth? What things are truth-bearers and therefore capable of being true or false? Are truth and falsity [[Principle of bivalence|bivalent]], or are there other truth values? What are the [[criteria of truth]] that allow us to identify it and to distinguish it from falsity? What role does truth play in constituting [[knowledge]]? And is truth [[Absolute (philosophy)|absolute]], or is it merely [[knowledge relativity|relative]] to one's perspective?<ref name="SEP truth"/> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page