Coherence Theory of Truth

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Coherence theories of truth pick up on aspects of our mental lives which are important like we do in fact have goals and beliefs do help us to fill those goals. So for that reason the coherence theory must be picking up on something because it's more or less just saying that particular virtue of your belief system being coherent is the one which makes a difference for truth. That's fair everyone wants to be coherent just whether or not that's. The same point on. And so what you'll find is that theories of truth tends to like something which kind of attracts maybe people to deflationism - they're able to recover whatever nice things you want to say about one theory of truth within the other

Everybody talks about the truth, but nobody does anything about it. And to be honest, how we talk about truth — what it is, and how to get there — can be a little sloppy at times. Philosophy to the rescue! I had a very ambitious conversation with Liam Kofi Bright, starting with what we mean by “truth” (correspondence, coherence, pragmatist, and deflationary approaches), and then getting into the nitty-gritty of how we actually discover it. There’s a lot to think about once we take a hard look at how science gets done, how discoveries are communicated, and what different kinds of participants can bring to the table.

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Liam Kofi Bright received his Ph.D. in Logic, Computation and Methodology from Carnegie Mellon University. He is currently on the faculty of the London School of Economics in the Department of Philosophy, Logic, and the Scientific Method. He has worked on questions concerning peer review and fraud in scientific communities, intersectionality, logical empiricism, and Africana philosophy. He is well-known on Twitter as the Last Positivist.

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