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Bart Vanderhaegen’s avatar
Bart Vanderhaegen​·​#1582​·​
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If we use the correspondance theory of truth, then truth consists of explanations that correspond "perfectly" to reality. In that sense all our statements are false: we don't have those explanations that perfectly correspond, all our actual statements are approximations, or deductions from approximations (1+1=2 is a deduction from a set of explanations, but that set is not entirely true - since the set is inconsistent and incomplete)

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Dennis Hackethal’s avatar
Dennis Hackethal​·​#1743​·​

correspondance

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