The Correspondence Theory of Truth by Lauren E Munroe The correspondence theory of truth is the understanding that when we analyze a statement, we determine whether the statement is true or false when we compare statement(s) to objects within their corresponding world using knowledge of this world, and if those objects are performing and or visually reflecting what the statement is stating they are doing. For example, person 1 states that they are a platypus. Person 2 analyzes the truth or falsehood of person 1’s statement by observing person 1 and seeing that person 1 within this world, has no characteristics of a platypus but in fact has all of the characteristics of a human within this world. Therefore, person 1’s statement is false. One
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There would not be a proper testing of truth or falsehood because nothing would be testable due to everyone possessing actual reality. However, the issues that arise with the correspondence theory of truth is that all a rational human being can do is test the validity of this existence, this (what we can touch, see, hear and taste) that is only a supposed representation of reality, or what we think reality consists of, but it is not actual reality. We as human beings have learned to give labels to what we create and we also give labels to what we observe that has already been established by the laws of physics with space and time and Earthly nature such as trees, grass, animals and sky, day, night, stars, etc. Even though we as humans have given objects in space as well as nature labels, it is important to note that these labels are inferior and not needed, for these objects existed well before human …show more content…
Math and science leaves the realms of emotion, religion and metaphors to hopefully one day enter a higher level of knowledge about this world. Philosophically, there are those that choose aesthetic language in hopes of reaching actual reality through describing objects and this world with severe abstraction. Yet, this can become absurd, because as one tries desperately to use linguistic abstraction to reduce objects and their container (existence) into the simplest form (reducing to the atom), one eventually must return to the original place they started—they must reassemble the wheel to get it rolling again, for reducing it to its most minute parts erases its concept and tangible helpfulness. Again, ask…what is beyond the carbon and
There would not be a proper testing of truth or falsehood because nothing would be testable due to everyone possessing actual reality. However, the issues that arise with the correspondence theory of truth is that all a rational human being can do is test the validity of this existence, this (what we can touch, see, hear and taste) that is only a supposed representation of reality, or what we think reality consists of, but it is not actual reality. We as human beings have learned to give labels to what we create and we also give labels to what we observe that has already been established by the laws of physics with space and time and Earthly nature such as trees, grass, animals and sky, day, night, stars, etc. Even though we as humans have given objects in space as well as nature labels, it is important to note that these labels are inferior and not needed, for these objects existed well before human …show more content…
Math and science leaves the realms of emotion, religion and metaphors to hopefully one day enter a higher level of knowledge about this world. Philosophically, there are those that choose aesthetic language in hopes of reaching actual reality through describing objects and this world with severe abstraction. Yet, this can become absurd, because as one tries desperately to use linguistic abstraction to reduce objects and their container (existence) into the simplest form (reducing to the atom), one eventually must return to the original place they started—they must reassemble the wheel to get it rolling again, for reducing it to its most minute parts erases its concept and tangible helpfulness. Again, ask…what is beyond the carbon and