... tell us does determine what we believe to be true, but it does not affect whether it is true. What is truth? "Truth" is "the state of being the case; the body of real things, events and facts; a judgement, proposition or idea that is true or accepted as being true".1 There are three tests to determine whether a statement is true or false. These are the correspondence test, the coherence test and the pragmatic test. The correspondence test, developed by Bertrand Russell, states that a concept is considered to be true, if the subjective mental concept is checked against a real object/event and corresponds to it. For example, if someone tells me that there is a car parked on the street, I can go outside and look and if there is a car, then the statement will be true, otherwise, it will be false. According to the coherence theory, a ...

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