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There are a million truths not just one.. what may be true for one person, may not be true for another.. and what may be true today for one person, may not be true tomorrow for that same person.. so truth is never just black or white..

Facts on the other hand are black and white, right or wrong.. where confusion arises though is when people think that opinion is fact, or where facts are made up/altered/manipulated...

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Alfred22

Theories of truth tend to fall into three heaps: Eliminate it and just say It is a spade! We don't need to say "It is true that that is a spade."

What works in language is true. So, calling that object a spade might work fine to get you to bring it to me. ADD, bring me that spade! You regard it as a shovel but context reveals to you what I want. So, for the purpose of holding it I can call it a spade and that works so it is true.

When language corresponds to the world, it is true. This is my personal preference but the correspondence relation is very hard to describe. The cat is on the mat. A traditional example is said to be true when it corresponds to the situation on the mat. And what does that come to. Well, a cat being on the mat. What is that? Sometimes new entities are introduced like "states of affairs." They hold or obtain or are real. Then we can say that The cat is on the mat. is true when the state of affairs of there being a cat on the mat obtains, holds, or exists.

These complexities lead to giving up the notion of truth. (The first approach)

Adaydreambeliever · 56-60, F

@Alfred22 That's a very interesting perspective! I had not linked it to language specifically, but I can see how that can make things even more complex regarding truth.