truth
Let an agent explain truth as a philosophical and logical concept, relay the main theories with attribution, describe applied senses such as ground truth and historicity, and present contested questions such as historicity of religious and epic texts neutrally.
Research draft, second pass
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain truth as a philosophical and logical concept, relay the main theories with attribution, describe applied senses such as ground truth and historicity, and present contested questions such as historicity of religious and epic texts neutrally.
The property of a statement, belief or proposition that corresponds to fact or reality, analysed in philosophy through correspondence, coherence, pragmatic, deflationary and other theories, treated in logic as a truth value that may in some systems admit degrees of truth, and applied in specific senses such as ground truth in measurement and machine learning, absolute truth in metaphysics and religion, and historicity as the truth of past events, including debates over the historicity of the Bible and of the Homeric epics.
What it is for: Not applicable; a concept.
It can be explain the concept; relay theories with attribution; describe applied senses; present contested questions neutrally.
Distinguishing features
Property of propositions
Multiple theories
Logical truth values
Applied senses
What it looks like
Not a visible object; a property of statements.
How it is recognised
Correspondence of statements to reality
Theories of truth, truth values, degrees of truth, ground truth, absolute truth, historicity
Fact is what is the case; knowledge is justified true belief on classic views; honesty is a virtue about telling truth
Related models
is a kind of - in registry terms, as a property of propositions
is studied in - and philosophy of language
is formalised as - in logic
is contrasted with - and with belief
In practice
Families and kinds
theories of truth: correspondence, coherence, pragmatic, deflationary, semantic
truth values and degrees of truth in logic
absolute and relative truth
ground truth in measurement and machine learning
historicity of events and texts, including the Bible and the Homeric epics
truth in law, journalism and science
Standards and regulation
No regulation; legal standards of evidence and journalistic codes as applied forms
Failure modes and hazards
Presenting one theory of truth as settled
Presenting historicity debates as settled
Confusing truth with certainty or consensus
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Also registered as vr.tr.truth
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Understand What truth is.
Attribution.
Definition
Concept.
Definition
Definition.
- What is truth, and how does it differ from fact, knowledge, certainty and honesty? definition
- Is the question about the philosophical concept, a logical notion, ground truth or historicity? boundary
Theories
Theories of truth.
Theories
Theories.
- What do correspondence, coherence, pragmatic, deflationary and semantic theories say, with positions attributed? provenance
- Which entry fits the specific theory? action
Logic Logic and science.
Science.
Values
Truth values.
Values
Values.
- How do classical, many-valued and fuzzy logics treat truth and degrees of truth? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Ground truth
Ground truth.
Ground truth
Ground truth.
- What is ground truth in measurement, remote sensing and machine learning? provenance
- Which entry fits ground truth? action
History Historicity.
Attribution.
Historicity
Historicity.
Historicity
Historicity.
- How do historians assess the historicity of events and texts? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Debates
Contested cases.
Debates
Debates.
- What do scholars and traditions say about the historicity of the Bible and the Homeric epics, with positions attributed? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral and attributed? boundary
Context Society and history of ideas.
Context.
Society
Truth in society.
Society
Society.
- How do law, journalism and science establish truth, and what debates surround post-truth politics, with attribution? provenance
- Which entry fits misinformation? action
Ideas
History of ideas.
Ideas
Ideas.
- How have ideas of truth developed from Aristotle and Aquinas to Tarski and contemporary debates? provenance
- Which entry fits the history of philosophy? action
What the second pass must settle
- Should theories of truth and historicity be separate primary entries?
- How should philosophical references be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming applied senses and specific historicity debates; should they be split off?