What is Truth? Have you ever wondered what the definition of truth is? Or how do we know whether something is true or false? These questions and many others related to this topic are frequently asked by philosophers and Scientifics from decades ago and even up to this day. However, one the most accepted theories among philosophers is the Correspondence Theory of Truth. In this paper I am going to analyze the point of view of one of the supporters of that theory, the philosopher Bertrand Russell, and his thoughts towards truth and the resemble with the book 1984 by George Orwell. Defining truth is a difficult task mainly because of the many theories, definitions and ideas that currently exist. But even more difficult is to distinguished between
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The Party controlled almost everything, they were able to fake photographs, to update the newspapers, books, and then destroyed every old version that existed around Oceania. They were the ones delivering and controlling the information. Therefore, when you had a belief or statements that you wanted to validate as truth, the only facts available were not objective and so it was impossible to separate truth from falsehood and to obtain the actual truth. As Winston says: “The past, starting from yesterday, has been actually abolished. If it survives anywhere it’s in a few solid objects with no words attached to them… History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right. It would never be possible for me to prove that the past is falsified not even when I did the falsification myself.” So, how is that Winston seems like the only one that realizes this? If the past is abolished, then yesterday’s truth does not longer …show more content…
To Russell in order for something to be true it has to be able to be expressed in the form of a sentence in some possible language, no matter if it’s a new language (Newspeak) or one that hasn’t been invented yet. A sentence is important in order for us to do a statement and create beliefs. Every sentence has a truth-value which is the capacity to be true or false. However, the goal of a sentence is to be truth. The importance of a sentence is also demonstrated by Russell in the generation of a judgment. It has something called a sense, in which the subject and the object have to be put in a certain order. This is because these terms are later united into a complex whole. The order of the words gives the sentence the exact meaning and it eliminates the possibility of saying something meaningless (words that don’t go together don’t say anything). Russell’s theory of truth is one of many other theories that try to explain the concept of truth from a certain perception. However, I chose this one because of my acceptance towards Russell statements and because of the resemblance of Orwell and his book 1984 with his philosophy. As we can see truth is a very important concept that some people may take for granted. I believe we should stop hearing someone’s opinion or beliefs and immediately assume that is truth. If we don’t have a fact that actually validates the statement then it may continue to be just a belief and also
The Party controlled almost everything, they were able to fake photographs, to update the newspapers, books, and then destroyed every old version that existed around Oceania. They were the ones delivering and controlling the information. Therefore, when you had a belief or statements that you wanted to validate as truth, the only facts available were not objective and so it was impossible to separate truth from falsehood and to obtain the actual truth. As Winston says: “The past, starting from yesterday, has been actually abolished. If it survives anywhere it’s in a few solid objects with no words attached to them… History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right. It would never be possible for me to prove that the past is falsified not even when I did the falsification myself.” So, how is that Winston seems like the only one that realizes this? If the past is abolished, then yesterday’s truth does not longer …show more content…
To Russell in order for something to be true it has to be able to be expressed in the form of a sentence in some possible language, no matter if it’s a new language (Newspeak) or one that hasn’t been invented yet. A sentence is important in order for us to do a statement and create beliefs. Every sentence has a truth-value which is the capacity to be true or false. However, the goal of a sentence is to be truth. The importance of a sentence is also demonstrated by Russell in the generation of a judgment. It has something called a sense, in which the subject and the object have to be put in a certain order. This is because these terms are later united into a complex whole. The order of the words gives the sentence the exact meaning and it eliminates the possibility of saying something meaningless (words that don’t go together don’t say anything). Russell’s theory of truth is one of many other theories that try to explain the concept of truth from a certain perception. However, I chose this one because of my acceptance towards Russell statements and because of the resemblance of Orwell and his book 1984 with his philosophy. As we can see truth is a very important concept that some people may take for granted. I believe we should stop hearing someone’s opinion or beliefs and immediately assume that is truth. If we don’t have a fact that actually validates the statement then it may continue to be just a belief and also