Fantastic video!! I loved the way you sort of think through the explanations. I mean, you are not just reciting the theories, you are actively exploring them. The video felt like a conversation. Loved that.

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Interesting and insightful. Friendly personality and excellent explanations. Good format and presentation of this lecture.

Very useful for me, summed up majority of my semester 2 syllabus of these 3 theories of truth, very well defined and understandable explanations.. Thank you professor

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Delightfully enlightening

Your comment on Correspondence Theory being problematic because of the ability to verify claims doesn’t take away from Correspondence Theory being correct. It just means we cannot verify what’s behind the wall but logically we can deduce that there is a “behind the wall”.

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What a great lecture!!! Appreciate your explanation!!

Isnt coherence theory circular reasoning? If i take it to first principles, whatever i decided was truth first, determines all other truth. Its not a statement about truth, its a statement about yourself.

Thank you for a clear and concise lesson on Truth.

11:11 This was a very interesting question, thanks! For me there's a few reasons I want to know the truth 1. I have strong terminal curiosity to seek out unknown truth for the sake of seeking it out 2. I have a strong terminal respect and love for the truth, safeguarding it, and curating it. 3. I want to do things for my own purposes 4. I want to know what meta-ethical theories are true 4a. If moral realism is true then I want to know what ethical theories and or applied ethical judgments are true because I want to be a good person

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Very interesting introduction to the main theories of truth out there! I think that correspondence theory, coherence theory, and pragmatic theory each capture different aspects of what we mean when we say something is true. I think the correspondence theory of truth is what one usually means when they say that a claim is an absolute fact because being an absolute fact is independent of stances and webs of belief. The correspondence theory seems to capture what people mean when they say something is true to them. They usually mean that it meets stricter criteria than merely being justified for them to believe such as it cohering well with not just their evidence but also with all of the rest of their web of beliefs. The pragmatic theory seems to capture what someone means when they say something is demonstrably true or verifiably true in a very straightforward and self explanatory way. I'm not sure of which of these theories of truth such that a proposition that's true according to them satisfies the truth criterion for knowledge, but I think it's safe to say that if a belief satisfies all three of them then it satisfies the truth criterion for knowledge.

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Great video! This helped me so much with a paper I am currently working on in my first philosophy class. I wish I would have stumbled upon your channel earlier in the semester!

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Truth is the foundational of good, honest, and right living. If truth is tentative and changing all the time, then it never was truth in the first place.

I think my understanding of truth is closest to pragmatism. I feel like there's a problem with the coherence kind of truth, in that it can't work as an epistemological framework for _any particular_ truth, because something can only be true if it is coherent with other truths. Surely, it could only work to append new truths to already established ones? And what if something is true *and* is not coherent with other things previously thought to be "true"? Anyway, great video; I learned a lot.

I still think that the correspondence theory of truth is the definition of truth that is closes to how most people use the word „truth“. And this is all a good definition really has to do. Our senses are maybe not perfect but there are enough to justify the belief and if the belief actually correspond to the entity then it is JTB-knowledge. We can also make statements about our own mind like „I believe that apples exist“ and this statement is only true if it correspond to the fact that I believe that there are apples and this is something I can actually know with absolute certainty.

_The Truth is not a concrete object, like the table is in the room. The Truth is an Individual Spiritual Experience. The Truth is unique, and can be found in the heart of every living being, but just trough an Individual Spiritual Experience._

Is there a different category where you say an object exists when it is not subject to variations in truth perception? For example if we all push against a wall we are likely to be met with resistance and this "fact" could not be circumvented by any particular person's subjective opinion or experience

There are plenty of scientific theories that worked but turned out to be false. 2 examples off the top of my head are Newtonian gravity/Einstein's theory and the theory of phlogiston. A great book I recommend is "The structure of the scientific revolution" by Thomas Kuhn.

Honesty is the ultimate Truth.

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Un approccio eccessivamente semplificato secondo gli standard europei

Thank you for this lecture, my professor didn’t go over this subject, but it will be in our exam so I’m glad I found this

At the end of the video you mention the next lecture but I can't seem to find it. Could you please post the link to it?

Thanks! Helpful. Appreciated. "Truth is tentative - no absolutes." Is that an absolute statement? Sounds like it to me. If so, isn't there a contradiction here?

True Enough...

Occam’s Razor would suggest the Correspondence Theory of Truth should be the pick.

What is with metaphysical truth, that can not be sensed, (not touch, not seen, etc).. like sin and guilt (moral statement)??.. Can a true statement in moral (like 10 commandments) is measured?.. With what parameters?... Is human only talk about relative truth or can somehow acces absolute truth?...

Hi "Correspondence with reality" is the best definition of truth. The argument that we have no direct interaction with reality is incorrect. If a sign says "beware edge of cliff" and I say to myself "that is not reality, that is my mind interacting with my mental construction of reality", and keep walking until fall off the cliff, then my broken legs will tell me "that sign was reality". There's no arguing with broken legs. Philosophically, what just happened is that rather than our minds only being indirect perceivers of reality, reality has forced itself onto our mind. Reality can only do this if it is more real than our minds, and more powerful. There's no room for Berkeley's solipsism, and as Dr. Sam Johnson said as he kicked the stone, "I refute Berkeley thus". It's all been discussed 250 years ago. Coherence fails as a definer of truth because any group of liars can coordinate their lies to "cohere", but that doesn't make them "truth", because lies have nothing to do with truth. Pragmatism is a little better, but as the physicists found after Einstein discovered relativity, although Newton's classical mechanics still worked pragmatically in most situations, it was no longer "the truth". From a moral perspective, honesty is an ongoing commitment to truth that self corrects by abandoning non-truth, until only the correspondence with truth remains. Therefore honesty is truthfulness is truth. Cheers, P.R.

This helpped me get an A on my religion test which lead to an A in the whole courseeeee!!!

it seems to me that these three theories are not necessarily inconsistent with one another?

Where is the next video which continues this video? 😒

Professor G............any thoughts?

i think that your explaining of the cat in the room example is a coresponding view of knowledge not a coherance

Helpful video! Shame that the pragmatic theory got special treatment though. There are plenty of criticisms of it as well!

My life has been this there will be truth and it will be everywhere. In dreams and thoughts. Everyone will be grounded and I don’t have to die for this to happen. Not kill.

1 the problem with the coherent theory of truth is that people can believe in extreme things that either diverge from common sense or harm people, in principle, people have an integral worldview system that is disconnected from the real world the problem of the correspondent theory of truth is that consciousness is a direct participant in the construction of knowledge and worldview. that the truth is not given to us in its pure form, but it is formed from information processed by consciousness. in this regard, there is a hypothesis that every person (observer) does not know reality and phenomena in essence, but only with his own interpretation (besides, consciousness has errors) question: if both theories are used to find the truth, do they level each other's problems? or can they aggravate it? 2 in deductive logic, a conclusion is considered true if the premises are true (correspondence theory) and if the form of the statement is valid (coherent theory). in this regard, the question arises: is it possible to formulate such a reasoned statement that has true prerequisites and valid form?

9:20 appeal to emotion does not a make a theory wrong

4:53 circular argument

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Truth is that which corresponds to reality. Just because we can't know whether some things are true doesn't change whether or not they are true. While I reject the pragmatic theory and corespondance theory I appreciate the video for laying out/teaching on what the three theories are.

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Gracias Professor

I’m talking specifically about dreams. My life clarifies life.

James’ pragmatism is really a coherence theory, pragmatically speaking…

The essence of the word Truth Came immediately after the unwelcome Arrival of the Lie

2:45 I disagree that you don't actually know that there is a table in the room. I'm a defeasibility theorist so I think you can actually know there's a table in the room so long as 1. There actually is one in the room 2. You actually believe there is one in the room. 3. You're actually justified in that belief. 4. There are no undefeated defeaters in the world for your justifications in having that belief 5. You're not in a Gettier case for defeasibility theory I do agree with indirect realism though. And I know you probably have clever reasonable responses to this so I'm not saying the case is settled ^w^

_Theories are usually the afflictions of impatient minds, who prefer to get rid of the study or analysis of phenomena, therefore replacing them with images, with terms unintelligible to the common man, and often only with meaningless torrential verbosity._

The 'table' is a derived truth- a useful fiction. The table isn't fundamental; however, truth would weakly supervene on whether the table is or is not.

Physics and Truth are very different things. One is verifiable, the other is an opinion based on hypothesis. Even physics is liable to be misunderstood.

hey professor have at it with these physical experiences ive had. that took me from believing that our souls go on to KNOWING that our souls go on. I’ve been a therapist since 2002- In 2011 One of my clients was going through a really hard time with a break up and just really depressed- well 20min into the session I felt this overwhelming presence of LOVE beaming through every cell of my being and then there was an instant download into my mind.. (telepathic communication) I am a family member that has passed away and I am here to love and support him- so I asked him, do you have any family relatives that have passed away... There was silence for a minute and then he said yeah my dad- In that moment I was shown that we never stop existing and that we are truly magnificent beings ! After that experience I started getting telepathic communication telling me to take a photo of the sky . I was driving and was told telepathically to take a photo of the sky. I didn't see or hear anything- You look at the photo and there are tons of craft in the photo! Another time I was walking at the park and again was told to take a photo-And this boomerang looking craft is in the photo 2012 After that intense experience I went looking for answers as to what that love was that beamed through my entire body! And I came across a few channelers and was just thinking how amazing it would be to fly in a craft with them. Well two nights later I went to sleep and I found myself in this oval room with three very tall beings! I was sitting on this seating that goes all around this oval room.. and I was looking into space and I saw this huge explosion then this mothership just appeared!!! Biggest thing ive ever seen! So I got goosebumps on my arms and went to look down and rub them and boom! I was back in my in bed. Knowing I was just on a craft with three ET beings! Its called Astral Travel. Feb 2017 I was driving home late one night and was fidgeting with my radio when I heard in my head ACCIDENT ACCIDENT - I looked up at the road and I was reaching an intersection and there was a car stopped in my entire lane. I knew I was gonna T bone this guy and I slammed on my breaks and turned my wheel over to the side and our tires maybe touched! That was my proof that we have spirit guides with us 24-7- IF your asked can you see everything in your surroundings . You would say yes. But you would be lying. Cause you can only see 1% of the spectrum of light. Which means realities are going on all around you you just can not see it!

Does the truth of the Pragmatic theory of truth mean that the Correspondence and Coherence theories are false?

Pragmatic truth excludes itself. Truth cant be tested - truth is a determination. Ive tested and determined a truth. But i cant test if truth truely exists. Therefore i should not call something true.

15:23 is says truth is tentative-no absolutes but that's clearly false because as Hermes Tri said once 'absolute truth is truth without falsehood.' and that's just logically sound and in only incorporated the duality of truth and falsehood. It's the same as saying as what I created once 'absolute truth is the truth and only the truth'

Question: if we are talking about truth, AKA what is *actually* true, why aren’t we calling it ontology? I mean, there’s a difference between “p is true if it coheres with prior beliefs” and “we come to know p if it coheres with prior beliefs.” It sounds like you went from saying “here’s one way in which things can be true” (talking about truth) to saying “given what you already know about Leprachauns, you should know that that’s not true” (talking about knowledge). Unless coherence theory is a type of subjectivism (truths are true only with respect to an individual). I had this same confusion during Sam Harris’s first podcast with Jordan Peterson where they were disagreeing about what it means for something to be true and Sam said “before we can move on, we have to lay down some epistemology.” I think I’m confused on what epistemology actually means.

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Thanks for the video, Prof! By the way, are you Filipino? I’m a Fil-Am MA-Phil student (no pun intended) and it would be so cool if you were. Thanks once more!

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Is the nobility of suffering worth the logical fallacy of its truth? The truth often hurts because philosophers do not realize that truth, by definition, isn't true . . . The linguistic morpheme, "th" infers that an analysis is in progress. Truth infers an analysis of the probability that it is true (100% factual just as 1 + 1 = 2), an inference that a truth is never 100% true. Ergo to seek truth insures that one suffers to the exact degree that that truth was not true. Are we reaching synthesis as what is true from testing our truths OR are we killing what is true, one truth at a time?

Maybe OK for 5th grade class

i been christ flying around almsot 30 times now in my dreams saying im gary christ , thats lucid truth flying also is amazing by the way and devil is huge.

If you hold a remote controller in your hand & you dont have anything to control it with or the batteries have run out, is it a remote controller, as it doesn't fulfill the function it was made for? When is a cup, not a cup, for instance is a bowl a cup, how much can you morph one object until it no longer remains in that class of objects? If you have a table with a central stand, is it still a table, what about a box that you can put your plates on & eat from? It's not true that you had me read William James for a day! Regarding Pragmatism (is that the right one as there are apparently two types), the London map of the underground is a great example of something being wrong but useful. Is it an absolute that truth is tentative? With your God example you left out a couple of words that I feel are quite necessary, rather than "then I guess it's true!" better "then I guess it's true FOR THEM!"

Everything can be denied. Most can say death is a truth but I have another idea. Everything that is said and has been found out to be true is the truth. One specific thing can be denied but the whole can also not be denied. The opposite of I think there fore I am.

Does truth necessarily represent reality? If yes, can truth represent reality without propositions? If no, can propositions represent reality without an assigned true value (1) and a false value (0). If no, we know that truth fundamentally regards a reference point to reality. I suspect that truth is the internally-coherent collection of well-justified propositions

My specific life not those who talk like me know me and a few other things.

So what is truth? Apparently, we have the correspondence, coherence and pragmatic theories of truth. So which to embrace? None of them. These are typical of the one dimensional theories traditional in philosophy to which everyone subscribes without any sufficient analysis. I suppose the closest to that correct would be correspondence. What is truth actually? This question is such a problem for those who promote one of the three above because they don’t think past the insufficient work on which their notions are founded. 1. Truth is that which is imposed by material reality upon the awareness, which also constrains and directs the nature of truth in the abstract. 2. Truth arises from the imposition of the characteristics of existents and the effects of their interactions within materiality and by our understanding of that, the logical architecture of the function of the abstract. 3. Truth can be established at any level in any context in which we question it if studied at each step in that all truths are logical extensions of those from which they arise, back to fundamental absolutes which are by definition, true. Consider an absolute truth of materiality; there can be no motion without an object (moving). We know unequivocally that there is motion for we move. We also perceive motion of other objects which when we move to their location previous, find them gone and elsewhere. There is nothing to question.  Motion exists and is observable and measurable.  Motion is not and cannot be a physical aspect of the object moving. It is an intangible, contingent phenomenon of the object’s existence and its physicality, linking it directly with the context in which it exists.  We can measure the character of that motion, force, speed, etc., these being a product directly of that physicality of the object moving, there being a relationship between the two which is absolute. An absolute truth of abstraction would be that one cannot “appeal to truths to establish a position that denies the existence of truth”. This would be like saying “I think I am not thinking” and expect that it could ever be true, akin to defining terms in a proposition which at once denies their meaning. If we are able to process such a proposition and at the same time, determine the contradiction, it demonstrates the presence of and effect of truth only by which that would be possible. We come to know truth by two means, i.e., perception and abstraction. In terms of the former, our perceptual apparatus, traditionally accused of being subjective, we know that it is decidedly not. It is clearly “quantitatively objective” and only “qualitatively subjective”. Consider… That we can perceive a square and a circle at all defines the absolute nature of each with regard to itself and as opposed to the other. Part of the truth of that which something is, is that which it is not. A carbon atom is just that in part for it not being at once a hydrogen atom, etc. We know that to exist at all in material reality, an existent must be finite, delineable and differentiatable from all else. Reality imposes itself, existent by existent and by the effects of their interactions upon the consciousness/awareness. We cannot be aware or be able to perceive if the materiality we do perceive does not exist in prerequisite. Thus, if we perceive (what we think is) a table in a room, the issue then is that there must be something in the room or we would perceive nothing, a table or otherwise. Truth is discovered through perception and abstraction progressively, each new understanding building on that which came before. Note….that below is quantitative.  A square is definitively just that and that alone.  The square cannot be confused with a circle under any circumstances. This is unequivocal.  Conversely, with the circle in relation to the square. If one claims that we cannot be sure that we are perceiving an actual square or circle, he would then have to explain that which ensures that we still do not see the one for the other…”ever”. It would have to be admitted, minimally that each is distinct in a manner which defines it as such apart from the other such that they could not be one confused for the other. What is left then is whether the shape of the square we perceive, for example, is actually that which is before us. This is easily discerned by the full exercise of our visual apparatus as we “take in hand” the square and manipulate it in such a manner as to proof its shape. Additionally, we employ our other perceptual apparatus, e.g., our tactile senses. To extend the study farther, as we design and fabricate some fixture to interface with the square, we come to find that our perception of that and its literal design matches precisely with the original square in question, validating its shape as such, adding to our knowledge of the truth of its configuration (done once, we need never do this again, knowing that our perception of a square is the truth we thought). So too with the circle. Then, in expansion of this knowledge of the truth of these shapes, we extend the square and circle in their z axes and find that the square becomes a rectangular box and the circle a cylinder. We thus see truths in extension of those original. This is applied throughout our perception of the existence we must navigate daily.  If we see a tree and a mouse, like the square and circle, we cannot mistake the one for the other. It is not possible. This is quantitative.  That one might find the tree interesting or beautiful and another not, is qualitative, i.e., subjective. We can see the quantitative and qualitative aspects of perception blend in some measure in some contexts which can give rise to a measure of pollution of the truth in terms of the extent of its effect. Suppose two people see a man run from a store (quantitative) in a downtown area, (he) turn (ing) to see them (quantitative) then turn (ing) around and run (ning) away (quantitative). Suppose also that one of those in witness is bigoted against Hispanics. When queried by police about what each saw, one might say that a white man (qualitative) ran from the store, saw them then turned and ran the other way. The other might say that it was not a white man but a Hispanic (qualitative). The prejudice of the latter would have intruded upon his accounting of the event. This is problematic but it is still truth that each saw a man…leave a store…turn to see them…then turn and run away all of which are quantitative. The discernment of truth then is a simple matter of deconstructing the nature of the events in a context as per the interactions of the existents involved to see what aspects are logically, necessarily so as opposed to those which are deceptively seen as such. Note that even in the realm of ideas and concepts and as these effect processes such as the scientific method, truth is clearly discerned. The Raven’s Paradox for example, assumes an hypothesis that all ravens are black and by that that the purported, logical equivalent statement that all non-black things are not ravens, supports this hypothesis (a red shoe or a white train then would support the hypothesis that all ravens are black). The truth of this however is that it does not. Proper investigation shows clearly that the statement that “all non-black things are not ravens” is NOT a logical equivalent of “all ravens are black, but a contingent phenomenon/proposition, wholly dependent for its truth upon the truth of the assumption that all ravens are black and thus, logically necessary conceptually. It thus does nothing to support the original proposition that all ravens are black. The above can be summed up by the following; 1. Truth is absolute.  Truth is not relative, but contextual.  Truth (of materiality and of the abstract) is an imposition upon our awareness/consciousness which our perceptual apparatus perceives in a wholly objective manner, the relationship between the two, quantitative. - Our visual/perceptual apparatus, for example is composed of our eyes, wholly objective bio mechanisms which obey the laws of physics in every bit an objective manner as any sub atomic particle. - Our optic nerve as well. - Our brain (as an organ) which in an ever more complex function must present that data transmitted to it in a template manner that the mind, whatever that is (it is intangible) such that it will make sense as per the scene which is the subject of that transmission. All that in the above is 100% objective and not subjective. 2. The truth of the abstraction is equally absolute as it is a product of or a reflection of the material reality spoken of above.  Thought and the logic which is its means cannot contradict itself any more than can material existents. The ravens paradox mentioned above demonstrates. I don’t understand all of the soul searching and the sighs of depression by those who entertain this matter. It just ain’t that complicated and if one were willing to accept that these realities are not of our construction or formulation but already there for us to discover, he would be at peace. Note that all of the great paradoxes are resolvable for the truth of our material reality does not permit such conceptual contradictions. In fact, our languages which are reflections of the truths of reality are incapable of expressing them in a manner which might protect them from analysis and invalidation.

_You can falsify everything you want. There is no unfalsifiable thing. So, as you have stated, “it is True when you can’t falsify it”, is false._

It’s much easier to just be a Platonist

SUMMARY: 1. Correspondence Theory of Truth -it corresponds with reality 2. Coherence Theory of Truth -it coheres with your beliefs 3. Pragmatic Theory of Truth - it works, it is used to make something work or to make something useful