 I'm going to explain briefly a Russell's version of the correspondence theory of truth that he outlines in this chapter To understand this theory of truth, we kind of have to start with the you know the relevant objects In this truth. So the first, you know object. So to speak it is me, right? And then there's the world so what the correspondence theory of truth is going to do is it's going to have something to say about the beliefs of the Individual and what's real now Russell calls This the correspondence between belief and fact now belief is going to happen in the individual Fact is a way the world is he's not using the word fact the way that we use the word fact We use the word fact to mean something like What's proven right a belief that's proven? But for Russell a fact is not a belief at all a fact is a way the world is So this trash can being on top of the table. That's a fact Let's take a look and see what's going on inside my head So I'm looking at the trash can on the table and remember I'm not acquainted with the trash can or the table And I'm acquainted with sin-status, but that's probably you know diving into some other material Well, what's happening is we had the trash can on the table and what's happening in my head is that I have this belief the trash can is on top of The table now these three terms here These are all terms they constitute a belief Okay, so I had the belief and this is inside my head there's mean or that you the individual with the belief and There is the relation beliefs So what we have here is we have the subject. That's you We have the object that's that that's the belief and the object relation. That is You believing the belief These three things together the subject the object relation and the object they constitute a complex hole Complex hole doesn't mean that it's complicated. Although this theory might be a little unnecessarily complicated But the idea is it's complex as opposed to simple complex things have parts simple things don't So this complex hole has parts and the parts are constituents So you the belief and the believing You the belief in the believing even the even the relation there the subject the object and the relation they all form a complex hole Now the trash can on top of the table Not the belief mind you I want to talk about the fact here the fact of the trash can on top of the table This is also a complex hole. The trash can is a part of it The table is a part of it is a constituent of it and the relation on top of is another constituent So I've got one gets the one complex hole. That's me and I have another complex hole. That's the fact right or I should say the one complex hole me Believe in the belief that's one complex home and another complex hole That's the fact of the trash can be on top of the table and what exists between these two Another relation that exists between these two complex holes is the relation of correspondence Now for us for this correspondence theory of truth a belief is true Just in case. There's correspondents between the belief and the fact Just in cases correspondence between the belief and the fact so if the belief is true There's the belief, there's the fact and as a correspondence if the belief is false then The correspondence doesn't it doesn't exist or maybe the there's no correspondence. I should say if the belief is false Also, the belief still exists. There's still a fact, just not the fact that corresponds to the belief. And there's a lack of correspondence between the belief and the fact. So to kind of sum up, if a belief is true, then I've got the belief, I've got the fact, and I've got the correspondence. And if I've got the belief, and the fact, and the correspondence, then I have truth. And that's the correspondence theory of truth.