Theme Of Truth In Richard Dewitt's World Views

The concept of what is true is a problematic aspect of life. Science is searching for facts and truths throughout the world to solidify theories and experiments. Yet what is considered a fact or truth? The relationship between facts, truths, and science appear as a simple relationship, but it is much more complicated and debated than that. Richard DeWitt proposes multiple theories in his book, World Views: An Introduction to the History and Philosophy of Science, which explains the complex relationships that the facts, truths, and science share.
The main problem with truth in scientific reasoning that DeWitt tries to get across is what makes a true statement or belief true, what makes a false statement or belief false, what do true statements have in common, and what do false statements have in common (DeWitt). There is not a proper solution as to what makes a statement or belief true, but there are theories that DeWitt explains in the chapter “Truth.” DeWitt proposes two main theories of truth they are the correspondence theories of truth and the coherence theories (DeWitt).
The correspondence theory of truth states that something is made true if it corresponds with reality. In order for something to be made true in terms of …show more content…
An example that DeWitt gives in this book is the belief that the Earth moves around the sun. According to the coherence theory, this belief is true because it coheres with many other’s belief about the Earth’s rotation around the sun. If someone was to say that the sun rotates around the Earth then their belief would be false because it does not cohere with other’s beliefs concerning the Earth and sun. This is the main theory of coherence, but there are different versions of the coherence theory of truth. The two versions are individualistic and group versions or