The Coherence Theory of Truth

The Coherence Theory of Truth
James O. Young, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2018/06/27
A naive theory of truth would be one where a sentence is true if and only if whatever it describes is actually true in the real world. This is the correspondence theory of truth. But what if you can never satisfy this? What if you can't know enough about the real world to establish correspondance? Is there no truth, then? Not necessarily - this is where the coherence theory of truth comes in. More...