Truth

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Truth is commonly understood as conformity to reality or fact. It contrasts with falsity or misrepresentation that fails to align with the world. Truth is typically treated as a property of sentences, propositions, or beliefs that describe things as they are. It is closely related to truthfulness, a virtue associated with honesty, and to truthlikeness, a characteristic of theories that approximate the truth. Various theories of the nature of truth have been proposed, but its precise definition remains contested. The correspondence theory holds that a statement is true if it corresponds to facts. According to the coherence theory, a belief is true if it is consistent with other beliefs and supported by them. Pragmatists understand truth based on practical consequences and inquiry, claiming that truth is what works or what would withstand the test of unlimited inquiry. The semantic theory analyzes truth in terms of the conditions under which a sentence would be true. Deflationary theories...

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