PRACTICAL CONSEQUENCES
Investigative journalism Documentary Print journalism Radio journalism Convergent journalism Creation of ‘truthful’ representations What is the ‘truth about’ knife crime? What is the truth about the environment? What is the truth about prejudice? In the form of film, photography, podcast Critical investigation of the concept of truth Other formats CORRESPONDENCE - The correspondence truth test asks whether the proposition matches up to what we know through our senses to be true. An example maybe if we go to a football match, and afterward claim that a certain goalkeeper was playing in the game. The claim would have been made by seeing him on the pitch being involved in the game: in other words, using our senses to confirm if something is true. COHERENCE - The coherence theory of truth relies on the proposition fitting in with what we know to make sense. If we had made the knowledge claim that the goalkeeper was playing in the match without having been at the match ...