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                                           4. dubna 2022


                              Theories of truth: A critical overview

                                          dr. Mate Penava

                                        University of Zadar











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When we talk about what truth is, we are concerned with establishing a criterion for discerning
true statements from false ones. But before this, it is necessary to examine if truth is a
substantial notion or it can be replaced with some other notion. Several views on truth, jointly
labelled as deflationist, claim that truth is not a substantial notion and subsequently not of
utmost significance. If we refuse this view, we need to establish the above-mentioned criterion and
several groups of theories have aimed to do so. One of the most prominent theories is that of truth
as correspondence, which claims that a statement is true if it corresponds to reality and false
otherwise. Although this seems as a very good description of truth, it has many drawbacks and due
to this many rival theories have appeared. The most prominent ones would be coherence theory of
truth, pragmatist theory of truth and verificationist theory of truth. All of these theories claim
that truth is a substantial notion. There are also some theories that can be placed between
substantial theories of truth and deflationist theories. The main candidates here are the identity
theory of truth and various minimalist accounts of truth.