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Statements are true when they correspond to reality, but only because corresponding to reality is what statements are for.
The objection makes use of the following line of reasoning: "If truth is correspondence, then, since knowledge requires truth, we have to know that our beliefs correspond to reality, if we are to know anything about reality".
But they don't always correspond to reality.
"Those words do not correspond to reality," Dmitry Peskov, a Kremlin spokesman, said on Tuesday.
Otherwise, the outward appearance of intramural harmony seems to correspond to reality.
"Truthiness is a good story, one that feels right, but doesn't correspond to reality.
A spokesman told the RIA Novosti news agency: "The information does not correspond to reality.
"The facts recorded in the police report," she said bluntly, "do not correspond to reality".
Truth was seen as making logical propositions that correspond to reality.
The Iranian claim "did not correspond to reality," said the agency, the Federal Military and Technical Cooperation Service.
He said the scandal had painted an "exaggeratedly negative" picture of the Vatican, which "doesn't correspond to reality".
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