Everyone is interested in the truth, for many reasons. Get to it, achieve, achieve, is the fruit flavor. It makes us feel good knowing that we are right, we told the truth connected to reality, and so on. Have true beliefs, however, does not help when you know what is the truth.
we think that truth is a kind of property that characterizes some thoughts, statements or assertions. In this context, one of the theories to explain what the truth is the correspondence , which affirms the existence of a match between a statement and the fact. Or in other words, between what we believe and reality. So if I think "I see a cat" when actually I look at that cat at my feet, then my thought is true because it corresponds with the fact that it describes. There are, first, a thought, which has a content, and, secondly, a fact (a reality) that has the virtue of making that a reality.
should clarify the difference between truth and fact. A truth is a thought, a representation (mental, that is) or an accurate description of the world, while a fact is all that can be described or represented by the same truths. Therefore, a true is a true, because it relies on a fact that corroborates the world, this means that without facts there is, in principle, true (but possibly itself has made no truths, because, perhaps, there are certain facts that have not constancy, and therefore do not constitute any truth to us until we notice them or describe them.)
One of the first formulations of this theory was given by Aristotle in his Metaphysics:
" say what is not is, or what is not, is false, and say what
it is, and what is not is not, is true, so that
you say something is or is not, tell true or false "(Mtf., IV, 7)
Therefore, if the meaning of a sentence or a thought, describes the events based on how we interpret the world, then this statement corresponds to the facts, and therefore is a true statement.
There are two fundamental ways of conceiving the correspondence theory. On the one hand, we understand it as a rigorous match between utterance and reality, if we say that this is an absolute copy of it, as well reflected in the manner of a mirror. So, depending on the structure and adequacy of a statement we know whether or not corresponding to reality. Bertrand Russell is one of the best examples of this type of correspondence epistemology. Moreover, this theory can be thought as a simple reciprocal relationship , a thought whose meaning coincides with or is in line with reality, but in a broader sense. Aristotle himself thought so.
however, would be strictly true that do not correspond to facts? If someone says that I am not a cat, then you are fully right (his thought, the statement that he delivered, fully corresponds to reality, the fact that I am not a cat). But there may be a fact referred to the non-reality, the evidence that I I am a cat? It is true that I am not a cat, where is "is" the fact that?, Although this statement is true, how can we understand a negative?
addition to this the correspondence theory creates many other problems , "this theory represents a primitive notion of truth, or part of any entity that is even more so? According to Martin Heidegger itself derived from another more primitive notion, because the real truth is connected to the being of things, more original, and this is prior to any trial, and therefore the idea of \u200b\u200bcorrespondence. The truth lies in being, before any another relationship.
Another difficulty is the concept of correspondence. By convention, our culture has become associated certain linguistic signs of specific objects, and therefore to show such signs represents the human mind or set this object, but how it performs and what that mental representation of the object? Therefore
the correspondence theory as descriptive approach to the truth has often been opposed to many others, among which include the pragmatic theory of truth, coherence theory, theory of truth and semantic theory truth as redundancy. We may see some of them future notes.
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