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Re:Zen Buddhism and Alan Watts by coldtea on Monday October 06, 2014 @03:13PM (#8417628)
>Truth is then the set of beliefs about the world that accurately model reality.

That's just one of the definitions of truth, and a quite naive one at that. Not just philosophy, even epistemology have not been using this for ages.

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Re:Zen Buddhism and Alan Watts by Steven_Bukal on Tuesday October 07, 2014 @10:33PM (#8425046)
It's a correspondence definition. And actually I understand correspondence has been one of the most popular theories of truth since Plato and Aristotle, continuing to the present.
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