Truth, cognitive processes, and speech actsTruth is a cognitive relationship. The philosophical definitions of truth you’ll see in the books and perhaps encounter in your college coursework are mostly terrible, though. The correspondence theory is almost okay, but then there turns out to be no way to verify the relationship between the theorem and the presupposed objective reality, rendering it functionally useless, a philosophical boondoggle. However, if the correspondence is posited to occu...

Truth, cognitive processes, and speech actsTruth is a cognitive relationship. The philosophical definitions of truth you’ll see in the books and perhaps encounter in your college coursework are mostly terrible, though. The correspondence theory is almost okay, but then there turns out to be no way to verify the relationship between the theorem and the presupposed objective reality, rendering it functionally useless, a philosophical boondoggle. However, if the correspondence is posited to occu...