ABSTRACT
The problem of the nature and criterion of truth is central in the theory of knowledge and has been studied by philosophers for centuries. The contribution towards solution of the problem of truth which attempts to make in this paper cannot, for several obvious reasons, be more than a very modest one. To discern the answer, we must first attend to a familiar distinction, dating back at least to Aristotle, which is of truly basic importance for the theory of knowledge. A judgement may be called quiddative if it is of some 'what' about some 'that'; and on the contrary existential if it is of some 'that' about some 'what'. Moreover, every judgement is either quiddative or existential in this sense. The greatest difficulty in the way of criticism of the coherence theory of truth is that of finding out exactly what the advocates of it conceive it to be.
