The Realist View of Scientific Truth and the Correspondence Theory of Truth (Essay Sample)

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Compare the Realist View of Scientific Truth to the Correspondence Theory of Truth
The realist's view explains that science aims at correctly identify the aspect of reality and outlining it to illustrate a true theory about it (Assay, 2017). Therefore, according to realists, scientific truth is how scientific theories or some aspects of these theories are true. For example, individuals read an article about scientific theory, they should believe its contents and claims since the scientists who developed the article have enough evidence to support their claims and everything described by science is real despite its interpretation. The correspondence theory of truth illustrates that people’s beliefs are true if they correspond to the facts. For example, a belief such as a plant is green is true because it is a fact that the plant is green.
The two approaches are similar in that both use facts and reality to ascertain that an issue or situation