Article from above link says like below: Facts are notes and lyrics on sheet music. But still curious about the difference between both of them. Improve this question. NullPointer NullPointer 2 2 gold badges 7 7 silver badges 17 17 bronze badges. It's a pretty standard way of thinking about the distinction. HunanRostomyan, I was first thought that analytic thinking is used for Facts. Sentence S is called analytic in language system L with respect to meaning postulates P if and only if when the logical vocabulary of L is interpreted, S becomes a logical consequence of P.
For example: the sentence 'if John is a bachelor then John is unmarried' is analytic in FOL with respect to meaning postulate 'for all x, if x is a bachelor then x is not married'. I'm used to hearing "fact" be used to describe any true proposition. Dennis, then what can we use for "truth"? Show 9 more comments. Active Oldest Votes. Edit: More on truth So on one common view those things that can be true are propositions. Because otherwise there could be a second reading about the fact that grass is green is true , if there is such a fact To conclude: i There is the fact that grass is green, and ii the proposition that grass is green is true.
Improve this answer. Lukas Lukas 3, 16 16 silver badges 27 27 bronze badges. Can you please more elaborate your "chair" example for "Truth"?. I little bit got about the "Fact" for chair but could not understood about "Truth" for given example.
To reword Lukas's very valid answer: A chair cannot be "true". Similarly, it is a fact that I am currently sitting on a chair, and "His act of sitting on that chair is true" makes no sense. Truth doesn't apply to things, actions, or states. So a chair can't be true, my act of sitting on the chair can't be true, but the assertion "He is sitting on that chair" can be true.
I fixed the first paragraph, last sentence is now actually understandable bracketed example were not displayed. Lukas, Can you please still elaborate little more about example of Truth with respect to Fact? I got an example for Fact but still little want to clear about Truth. Can you give another example? This answer is spot on.
All of the other answers at the time of writing are completely off and have no support whatsoever in philosophy. Show 4 more comments. I want to make some general points about the OP. Baby Boy Baby Boy 85 7 7 bronze badges. I don't think this answers the question. The OP admits these words can be used interchangeably, but is looking for some difference between them.
You appear to be saying there is no difference between them. It would help to have references to philosophers who take this position that truth and fact are the same so the reader can get more information.
The Answer doesn't say that 'fact' and 'truth' are interchangeable, only that in one important sense they are so. And that whether they are interchangeable depends on context. It might have been useful to have examples but the basic claim that words such as 'fact' and 'truth' do not have nuclear, essentialist meanings but contextually dependent meanings strikes me as sound.
Different contexts, different sentences, different meanings. This is a sound methodological point to make. Hello again, btw! I think 'fact' has largely had its day; the notion is seldom discussed by philosophers nowadays mainly because no-one has been able to find a non-circular definition or analysis.
I think this is the best answer, so far, stating the nuances of context but also the contextual identity of the terms. GeoffreyThomas, I would argue otherwise, instead stating that fact is the only non-circular truth there might be. Having direct reference outside the mere symbolic — Nikos M. Add a comment. A fact is a perception of reality. A truth is a perception which matches reality. There is a nice parallelism with [axiomatic] formal systems: An axiom is a building block for possible worlds.
A theorem is a statement about certain possible worlds. Ok, that didn't turn out quite as well as I hoped. The appeal to "perception" here seems to beg certain very important questions; namely, that there might be a substantial ontological difference between the things in the world that ought properly be considered facts and the things in the world that an observer can form true beliefs about. You can see this quite well on the maths side, since it's a matter of philosophical and mathematical controversy to say that the only acceptable models of mathematical ontology are those isomorphic to a proof-theoretic semantic structure.
PaulRoss: that is one packed statement! What's an example of something which isn't 'a proof-theoretic semantic structure', which is a candidate for describing 'things in the world'? The idea that there are more sets than can be given in purely constructive terms is quite established in analysis. And if we want all of that mathematical power at our disposal, using set theoretic foundations for logical structure has definite value over and above what can be said of strictly formal proof theory. I think you're proposing something radically at odds with both current mathematical practice and all of the currently live proposals to amend that practice, and suggest you might want to investigate more of what is currently out there.
StevenHoyt: I just came across the following quote of William James: "But please observe, now, that when as empiricists we give up the doctrine of objective certitude, we do not thereby give up the quest or hope of truth itself.
We still pin our faith on its existence, and still believe that we gain an ever better position towards it by systematically continuing to roll up experiences and think. Without realism however 'critical' you like , I see no difference between 'fact' and 'truth'. Show 10 more comments.
And what is a truth, in the world of humankind? A truth is the opposite of a lie, as simple as that. Wait, and what is a lie? That is what is real to us. That is our reality. Is this true? If so than reality is what is perceived by us individually. If this is so, does that make reality fluid? Does it mean that all perceived aspects of an event exist simultaneously? I am talking about the perception of an event. Perception is perception, usually perception of reality.
Who's reality? Quote: In fact, I would say that it contradicts your previous statement: if we do not have the same perception, and perception is reality although it's not clear what this means , then it follows that we couldn't possibly witness the same event. Is that clear? Witnessing the same event is not the same as perceiving the event. Our perception of events is rooted in our life experiences. The act of perceiving is a process of sensory stimulation that we interpret, causing the event to become a personal experience.
Quote: I don't think so. Why do you think that would be true? You are quite bold to be speaking of the essence of reality! And what does 'real to us' even mean? What's the difference between X being 'real to us' and us believing that X is real? Do you not think that reality has an essence?
If perception is reality and perception is subject to human experience, than x could be real to me and not real to you and both of us are right. It is similar to looking at a painting. In that people interpret the painting in their own way. By doing so that does not exclude someone else s interpretation.
I believe that to mean that all elements exist. I will perceive certain elements and someone else may perceive others. Thus causing reality to be a purely individual experience based on sensory interpretation. All advocates of truthmaker theory maintain that the truthmaking relation is not one-one but many-many: some truths are made true by more than one truthmaker; some truthmakers make true more than one truth.
This is also claimed as a significant improvement over traditional correspondence theories which are often portrayed as committed to correspondence being a one-one relation. This portrayal is only partly justified. While it is fairly easy to find real-life correspondence theorists committing themselves to the view that each truth corresponds to exactly one fact at least by implication, talking about the corresponding fact , it is difficult to find real-life correspondence theorists committing themselves to the view that only one truth can correspond to a given fact but see Moore , p.
A truthmaker theory may be presented as a competitor to the correspondence theory or as a version of the correspondence theory. Some advocates would agree with Dummett , p. Other advocates would follow Armstrong who tends to present his truthmaker theory as a liberal form of correspondence theory; indeed, he seems committed to the view that the truth of a contingent elementary proposition consists in its correspondence with some atomic fact cf.
Armstrong ; , pp. Logical atomists, such as Russell and Wittgenstein , will hold that the truth or falsehood of every truth-value bearer can be explained in terms of can be derived from logical relations between truth-value bearers, by way of the recursive clauses, together with the base clauses, i. This recursive strategy could be pursued with the aim to reject the truthmaker principle : not all truths have truthmakers, only elementary truths have truthmakers here understood as corresponding atomic facts.
There is one straightforward difference between truthmaker theory and most correspondence theories. Modified correspondence theories also aim at providing a definition of truth, though in their case the definition will be considerably more complex, owing to the recursive character of the account.
Truthmaker theory, on the other hand, centers on the truthmaker principle : For every truth there is something that makes it true. There is a growing body of literature on truthmaker theory; see for example: Russell ; Mullligan, Simons, and Smith ; Fox ; Armstrong , ; Merricks ; and the essays in Beebe and Dodd ; Monnoyer ; and in Lowe and Rami See also the entry on truthmakers in this encyclopedia.
We have:. The argument has been criticized repeatedly. Critics point to the two questionable assumptions on which it relies, i and ii. It is far from obvious why a correspondence theorist should be tempted by either one of them.
Opposition to assumption i rests on the view that expressibility by logically equivalent sentences may be a necessary, but is not a sufficient condition for fact identity. Opposition to assumption ii rests on the observation that the alleged singular terms used in the argument are definite descriptions : their status as genuine singular terms is in doubt, and it is well-known that they behave rather differently than proper names for which assumption ii is probably valid cf.
The objection that may well have been the most effective in causing discontent with the correspondence theory is based on an epistemological concern. In a nutshell, the objection is that a correspondence theory of truth must inevitably lead into skepticism about the external world, because the required correspondence between our thoughts and reality is not ascertainable.
It is typically pointed out that we cannot step outside our own minds to compare our thoughts with mind-independent reality. Yet—so the objection continues—on the correspondence theory of truth, this is precisely what we would have to do to gain knowledge. We would have to access reality as it is in itself, independently of our cognition, and determine whether our thoughts correspond to it. Since this is impossible, since all our access to the world is mediated by our cognition, the correspondence theory makes knowledge impossible cf.
Kant , intro vii. Assuming that the resulting skepticism is unacceptable, the correspondence theory has to be rejected, and some other account of truth, an epistemic anti-realist account of some sort, has to be put in its place cf. This type of objection brings up a host of issues in epistemology, the philosophy of mind, and general metaphysics.
All that can be done here is to hint at a few pertinent points cf. Searle , chap. There are two assumptions implicit in this line of reasoning, both of them debatable. The assumption may rest on confusing requirements for knowing x with requirements for knowing that one knows x. This is highly implausible. By the same standard it would follow that no one who does not know that water is H 2 O can know that the Nile contains water—which would mean, of course, that until fairly recently nobody knew that the Nile contained water and that, until fairly recently, nobody knew that there were stars in the sky, whales in the sea, or that the sun gives light.
Similarly, as far as knowing that x is true is concerned, the correspondence theory does not entail that we have to know that a belief corresponds to a fact in order to know that it is true, or that our method of finding out whether a belief is true has to involve a strategy of actually comparing a belief with a fact—although the theory does of course entail that one obtains knowledge only if one obtains a belief that corresponds to a fact.
One might also wonder whether its competitors actually enjoy any significant advantage over the correspondence theory, once they are held to the standards set up by this sort of objection. Stove However, the connection between correspondence theories of truth and the metaphysical realism vs. On the one hand, deflationists and identity theorists can be, and typically are, metaphysical realists while rejecting the correspondence theory. On the other hand, advocates of a correspondence theory can, in principle, be metaphysical idealists e.
McTaggart or anti-realists, for one might advocate a correspondence theory while maintaining, at the same time, a that all facts are constituted by mind or b that what facts there are depends somehow on what we believe or are capable of believing, or c that the correspondence relation between true propositions and facts depends somehow on what we believe or are capable of believing claiming that the correspondence relation between true beliefs or true sentences and facts depends on what we believe can hardly count as a commitment to anti-realism.
Keeping this point in mind, one can nevertheless acknowledge that advocacy of a correspondence theory of truth comes much more naturally when combined with a metaphysically realist stance and usually signals commitment to such a stance.
History of the Correspondence Theory 1. Truthbearers, Truthmakers, Truth 2. Simple Versions of the Correspondence Theory 4. Arguments for the Correspondence Theory 5. Objections to the Correspondence Theory 6. Correspondence as Isomorphism 7. Modified Versions of the Correspondence Theory 7. The Correspondence Theory and Its Competitors 8. More Objections to the Correspondence Theory 9. An object-based definition of truth might look like this: A judgment is true if and only if its predicate corresponds to its object i.
It is intended to refer to bearers of truth or falsehood truth-value-bearers , or alternatively, to things of which it makes sense to ask whether they are true or false, thus allowing for the possibility that some of them might be neither. One distinguishes between secondary and primary truthbearers. Secondary truthbearers are those whose truth-values truth or falsehood are derived from the truth-values of primary truthbearers, whose truth-values are not derived from any other truthbearers.
This is, however, not a brute ambiguity, since the secondary meanings are supposed to be derived, i. For example, one might hold that propositions are true or false in the primary sense, whereas sentences are true or false in a secondary sense, insofar as they express propositions that are true or false in the primary sense.
It is often unproblematic to advocate one theory of truth for bearers of one kind and another theory for bearers of a different kind e. Different theories of truth applied to bearers of different kinds do not automatically compete. The standard segregation of truth theories into competing camps found in textbooks, handbooks, and dictionaries proceeds under the assumption—really a pretense—that they are intended for primary truthbearers of the same kind.
Confusingly, there is little agreement as to which entities are properly taken to be primary truthbearers. Nowadays, the main contenders are public language sentences, sentences of the language of thought sentential mental representations , and propositions. Popular earlier contenders—beliefs, judgments, statements, and assertions—have fallen out of favor, mainly for two reasons: The problem of logically complex truthbearers.
A subject, S, may hold a disjunctive belief the baby will be a boy or the baby will be a girl , while believing only one, or neither, of the disjuncts. Also, S may hold a conditional belief if whales are fish, then some fish are mammals without believing the antecedent or the consequent. Also, S will usually hold a negative belief not everyone is lucky without believing what is negated.
This means that a view according to which beliefs are primary truthbearers seems unable to account for how the truth-values of complex beliefs are connected to the truth-values of their simpler constituents—to do this one needs to be able to apply truth and falsehood to belief-constituents even when they are not believed.
This point, which is equally fundamental for a proper understanding of logic, was made by all early advocates of propositions cf. Bolzano , I. The problem arises in much the same form for views that would take judgments, statements, or assertions as primary truthbearers.
The problem is not easily evaded. Talk of unbelieved beliefs unjudged judgments, unstated statements, unasserted assertions is either absurd or simply amounts to talk of unbelieved unjudged, unstated, unasserted propositions or sentences. It is noteworthy, incidentally, that quite a few philosophical proposals concerning truth as well as other matters run afoul of the simple observation that there are unasserted and unbelieved truthbearers cf.
If the former, the state of believing, can be said to be true or false at all, which is highly questionable, then only insofar as the latter, what is believed, is true or false. Mental sentences were the preferred primary truthbearers throughout the medieval period. They were neglected in the first half of the 20th century, but made a comeback in the second half through the revival of the representational theory of the mind especially in the form of the language-of-thought hypothesis, cf.
Some time after that, e. Four points should be kept in mind: The notion of a truthmaker is tightly connected with, and dependent on, the relational notion of truthmaking : a truthmaker is whatever stands in the truthmaking relation to some truthbearer. For illustration, consider a classical correspondence theory on which x is true if and only if x corresponds to some fact.
One can say a that x is made true by a fact , namely the fact or a fact that x corresponds to. But they are importantly different and must be distinguished. Compare: what makes an even number even is its divisibility by 2; what makes a right action right is its having better consequences than available alternative actions.
Note that anyone proposing a definition or account of truth can avail themselves of the notion of truthmaking in the b -sense; e. Talk of truthmaking and truthmakers goes well with the basic idea underlying the correspondence theory; hence, it might seem natural to describe a traditional fact-based correspondence theory as maintaining that the truthmakers are facts and that the correspondence relation is the truthmaking relation. However, the assumption that the correspondence relation can be regarded as a species of the truthmaking relation is dubious.
Correspondence appears to be a symmetric relation if x corresponds to y , then y corresponds to x , whereas it is usually taken for granted that truthmaking is an asymmetric relation, or at least not a symmetric one. It is hard to see how a symmetric relation could be a species of an asymmetric or non-symmetric relation cf.
Talk of truthmaking and truthmakers is frequently employed during informal discussions involving truth but tends to be dropped when a more formal or official formulation of a theory of truth is produced one reason being that it seems circular to define or explain truth in terms of truthmakers or truthmaking. This theory should be distinguished from informal truthmaker talk: not everyone employing the latter would subscribe to the former.
Moreover, truthmaker theory should not simply be assumed to be a version of the correspondence theory; indeed, some advocates present it as a competitor to the correspondence theory see below, Section 8.
Simple Versions of the Correspondence Theory The traditional centerpiece of any correspondence theory is a definition of truth. Both forms, 1 and 2 , should be distinguished from: 3 x is true iff x corresponds to some fact that exists; x is false iff x corresponds to some fact that does not exist, which is a confused version of 1 , or a confused version of 2 , or, if unconfused, signals commitment to Meinongianism, i.
Arguments for the Correspondence Theory The main positive argument given by advocates of the correspondence theory of truth is its obviousness. Objections to the Correspondence Theory Objection 1 : Definitions like 1 or 2 are too narrow.
Objection 3 : Correspondence theories are too obscure. Correspondence as Isomorphism Some correspondence theories of truth are two-liner mini-theories, consisting of little more than a specific version of 1 or 2. Pertaining to the first aspect, familiar from mathematical contexts, a correspondence theorist is likely to adopt claim a , and some may in addition adopt claim b , of: Correlation: a Every truth corresponds to exactly one fact; b Different truths correspond to different facts.
Let us say, roughly, that a correspondence theorist may want to add a claim to her theory committing her to something like the following: Structure: If an item of kind K corresponds to a certain fact, then they have the same or sufficiently similar structure: the overall correspondence between a true K and a fact is a matter of part-wise correspondences, i. On this view, the above points still hold, since the relation between concepts, on the one hand, and the objects and properties they are concepts of , on the other, appears to be a semantic relation, a concept-semantic relation.
On the so-called Russellian view of propositions which the early Russell inherited mostly from early Moore , propositions are constituted, not of concepts of objects and properties, but of the objects and properties themselves cf. Russell On this view, the points above will most likely fail, since the correspondence relation would appear to collapse into the identity relation when applied to true Russellian propositions.
It is hard to see how a true Russellian proposition could be anything but a fact: What would a fact be , if not this sort of thing? A simple, fact-based correspondence theory, applied to propositions understood in the Russellian way, thus reduces to an identity theory of truth, on which a proposition is true iff it is a fact, and false, iff it is not a fact. See below, Section 8. More Objections to the Correspondence Theory Two final objections to the correspondence theory deserve separate mention.
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Davidson, D. Denyer, N. Descartes, R. Which can lead to discomfort in the body, even dis-ease if denied long enough. Our body always knows first what our truth is… trust it. Because it will reinforce to the Universe that you are listening to you, your higher-self, your intuition, source [whatever name resonates with you]. Remember, you have to know a truth from within not be told the truth. Get out of your head and feel into your body for what resonates now, not what should or could, but what does.
With all the truths floating around in our world, stop looking outside of yourself for an answer, and go within. I am not saying to not be informed, ask your questions, gather knowledge, do your own research—and let the truth be presented from within you not outside of you. Listening to my body has been a gift this year, giving myself more time to contemplate my now truths.
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