Jack_LaSota comments on Request for Steelman: Non-correspondence concepts of truth - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jack_LaSota 30 March 2015 12:22:24PM -1 points [-]

"There is nothing for the correspondence theory of truth to correspond to" is a feature, not a bug. Because this is one of those philosophical debates which is really just a choice of definition. "Something is true if it corresponds to reality" is just a definition, and definitions don't have truth* value.

*truth defined in a way that I think is pretty useful to define it, which is what we're usually looking for when we pick definitions.