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 and seeing him on the pitch for ourselves, then the claim would have been made based on other pieces of information that made that fact likely. Perhaps we knew that he was fit, playing extremely well and that the team’s manager had said beforehand that he was the top choice to play.

CONSENSUS - Consensus means the agreement of a group of people, so our third truth test is based around the idea that truth is what the majority of people believe. In our example, the fact of the goalkeeper playing in the match would be confirmed as true if the majority of people watching the game confirmed that he was present.

PRAGMATIC - The pragmatic truth test is altogether more complicated, and requires us to understand a little bit about the background of the philosophical school of ‘pragmatism’, and its most famous member, William James. Pragmatism holds that truth is whatever is useful and profitable to us, and whatever brings us benefit.

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