A PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS OF THE PRAGMATIC THEORY OF TRUTH AS A SYNERGY FOR THE COHERENCE AND CORRESPONDENCE THEORIES OF TRUTH

Abstract

The focus of every epistemic discourse is to identify and decipher knowledge that is not tainted, but directed towards truth. The process could be through leading-in ideas to already established truth to either concretize or modify the existing truth. The knowledge gotten from either of the media is scrutinized through practical application by the pragmatic theory of truth and manifested by a classical belief that has survived the test of time and experience, whose substructure is fundamentally an identification of what one claims to have conceived in the mind with actual reality. This research seeks to find a place of synergy for both correspondence and coherent theories of truth in the pragmatic theory of truth. It argues that both the coherence and the correspondence theories of truth find no expression except what is claimed to be true is made applicable, workable, practicable, instrumental and with cash value. It is from this perspective that the researcher evaluates the views and draws the conclusion that the synergy of the coherence and correspondence theories of truth is only possible and explicit in the pragmatic theory of truth.