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Truth has been discussed by philosophers over the soma of history, going back to Aristotle, in this essay we will come across a two theories of lawfulness in order to determine which is the most credible and general criticisms. It is chief(prenominal) when discussing this matter to have a correct definition of lawfulness, the meaning of it within the context of this question. This conception of truth is the question of iodines beliefs and things that one supports, it is the nature of this form of truth that philosophers have tested to understand and have debated. The two theories that will be discussed are the concord scheme and the coherence theory addition everyy briefly we will look at the idea of truth-bearers, as these vary between different philosophers. Finally, there will be a brief comparison of the two ideas in the conclusion. Arguably, the coherence theory appears to be a less flawed theory of truth.Kirkham gives a discussion of the debate of what is a truth bea rer in his introduction to the theories of truth, and this is a debate unto itself, however broadly the main candidates for this are propositions, sentences, beliefs, and statements (Kirkham, 1992, p. 59). Propositions, which is the information contained within a sentence, have been subject to debate as to whether they can represent truth and have been charged with being wispy by Russell and it has also be questioned as whether they exist at all (Ibid. p. 57). Sentences too are criticised as they can be interpreted as two false and received at the same time, additionally both statements and beliefs as truth bearers mean that there are unstated statements and unbelieved beliefs, which is a paradox. The first theory of truth to consider is correspondence, this theory states that stat... ...which appears to be to a greater extent convincing as this gives a whole definition of the question of what is true rather than Reschers internal truths.In conclusion, both conceptions of the t heory of truth appear to have contradictions within them, however correspondence theory appears to be to a greater extent flawed. It must be taken into consideration that other theories of truth exist, and one could argue that neither of these appear to be a commensurate account of truth in a general context. One important point that Walker raises is that coherence theory and correspondence theory do not necessarily have to conflict with each other, although if correspondence theorists canvas it as the nature of truth then there will be a conflict (Walker, 2001, p. 124). Nevertheless coherence theory gives a more satisfactory account of the nature of truth and to some extent as a test of truth as well.