A report on Truth

An angel carrying the banner of "Truth", Roslin, Midlothian
Walter Seymour Allward's Veritas (Truth) outside Supreme Court of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario Canada
'"What is Truth?" by Nikolai Ge, depicting John 18:38 in which Pilate asks Christ "What is truth?"

Property of being in accord with fact or reality.

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An angel carrying the banner of "Truth", Roslin, Midlothian

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Detail of Pythagoras with a tablet of ratios, numbers sacred to the Pythagoreans, from The School of Athens by Raphael. Vatican Palace, Vatican City.

Rationalism

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Epistemological view that "regards reason as the chief source and test of knowledge" or "any view appealing to reason as a source of knowledge or justification".

Epistemological view that "regards reason as the chief source and test of knowledge" or "any view appealing to reason as a source of knowledge or justification".

Detail of Pythagoras with a tablet of ratios, numbers sacred to the Pythagoreans, from The School of Athens by Raphael. Vatican Palace, Vatican City.
Plato in The School of Athens, by Raphael
Ibn Sina Portrait on Silver Vase.
In spite of his early death, Spinoza exerted a profound influence on philosophy in the Age of Reason. He is often considered one of three most remarkable rationalists of modern Western thought, along with Descartes and Leibniz.

Much of the debate in these fields are focused on analyzing the nature of knowledge and how it relates to connected notions such as truth, belief, and justification.

Correspondence theory of truth

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In metaphysics and philosophy of language, the correspondence theory of truth states that the truth or falsity of a statement is determined only by how it relates to the world and whether it accurately describes (i.e., corresponds with) that world.

Different approaches toward resolving the mind–body problem

Metaphysics

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Branch of philosophy that studies the fundamental nature of reality, the first principles of being, identity and change, space and time, causality, necessity, and possibility.

Branch of philosophy that studies the fundamental nature of reality, the first principles of being, identity and change, space and time, causality, necessity, and possibility.

Different approaches toward resolving the mind–body problem
The circled dot was used by the Pythagoreans and later Greeks to represent the first metaphysical being, the Monad or The Absolute.
The modern "yin and yang symbol" (taijitu)

Methodologically, the Eleatics were broadly rationalist, and took logical standards of clarity and necessity to be the criteria of truth.

Semantic theory of truth

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A semantic theory of truth is a theory of truth in the philosophy of language which holds that truth is a property of sentences.

A brain in a vat that believes it is walking

Reality

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Sum or aggregate of all that is real or existent within a system, as opposed to that which is only imaginary.

Sum or aggregate of all that is real or existent within a system, as opposed to that which is only imaginary.

A brain in a vat that believes it is walking
Reality-virtuality continuum.

George Musser, "Virtual Reality: How close can physics bring us to a truly fundamental understanding of the world?", Scientific American, vol. 321, no. 3 (September 2019), pp. 30–35. "Physics is... the bedrock of the broader search for truth.... Yet [physicists] sometimes seem to be struck by a collective impostor syndrome.... Truth can be elusive even in the best-established theories. Quantum mechanics is as well tested a theory as can be, yet its interpretation remains inscrutable. [p. 30.] The deeper physicists dive into reality, the more reality seems to evaporate." [p. 34.]

Principle of bivalence

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In logic, the semantic principle (or law) of bivalence states that every declarative sentence expressing a proposition (of a theory under inspection) has exactly one truth value, either true or false.

Criteria of truth

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In epistemology, criteria of truth (or tests of truth) are standards and rules used to judge the accuracy of statements and claims.

In epistemology, criteria of truth (or tests of truth) are standards and rules used to judge the accuracy of statements and claims.

Understanding a philosophy's criteria of truth is fundamental to a clear evaluation of that philosophy.

Veritas depicted on the monument to Pope Alexander VII

Veritas

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Veritas depicted on the monument to Pope Alexander VII
Statue of Veritas outside the Supreme Court of Canada

In Roman mythology, Veritas, meaning Truth, is the Goddess of Truth, a daughter of Saturn (called Cronus by the Greeks, the Titan of Time, perhaps first by Plutarch), and the mother of Virtus.

Epistemic theories of truth

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In philosophy and epistemology, epistemic theories of truth are attempts to analyze the notion of truth in terms of epistemic notions such as knowledge, belief, acceptance, verification, justification, and perspective.

Formal system

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Abstract structure used for inferring theorems from axioms according to a set of rules.

Abstract structure used for inferring theorems from axioms according to a set of rules.

Usually the quality we are concerned with is truth as opposed to falsehood.