PHILOSOPHY of the Human Person

Questions of Truth and Opinion

What is truth?
-Pontius Pilate to Jesus Christ
 Correspondence Theory
Plato and Aristotle
• The oldest model of truth.
• Simplest to understand because this is how we often
verify the truth.
• Method of verification of beliefs that claims true can be
tested using an object or fact that corresponded to.
Linguistic Turn
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
• Philosopher of Language
• Context Principle
• The ”Theory of Descriptions”
• Difference: “to differ” and “to defer”
• Meaning in constant state of negation & deference
Phenomenology and Existentialism
Jacques Derrida (1930-2004)
• Theory of Deconstruction
• Challenge the notion of Truth and Objectivity
• Structure is Highly Unstable
• Difference not so much ties meaning down but
destabilized it
• Difference: “to differ” and “to defer”
• Meaning in constant state of negation & deference