When you type ‘muslim’ into google image search, your first three results are: a muslim woman at a beauty pageant in a bikini; a group of women wearing face-veils; another muslim woman at a beauty pageant in a bikini.
When you simply type ‘define:’ into the google search bar and wait, the first two suggested completions are:
‘define:love’
‘define:socialism’
So traditionally, philosophers have often talked about ‘truth’ in something like the following way. A ‘thought’ is true when it corresponds to reality, and false when it does not.
Some people attack this ‘correspondence theory of truth’, but I’m not going to. It seems like quite a basic feature of what we mean by ‘true’ that true thoughts are ‘right’ or ‘accurate’ in the way they represent things. It’s not that which I want to take issue with.
Rather, note some of the structural features of the traditional account. There are two states, true and false, and they basically divide everything between them (even if they’re allowed to have intermediate states of ‘partially true’ or ‘close to the truth’), and they refer to individual thoughts.
Via. CNN:
“Nine Hutu tribal fighters and several Rwandan and Congolese troops were killed in fighting in eastern Congo, a United Nations spokesman said, as the two governments continued an unprecedented partnership to combat ethnic violence.
The fighting against the Hutus in the Lubero region came a day after Congolese rebel leader Laurent Nkunda, of the rival Tutsi ethnic group, was arrested by Rwandan authorities.”
