ABSTRACT
The discussion of truth is found in logical, epistemological, metaphysical, and psychological contexts. The immediacy of grasping truth in sensation is complex. The relation of truth to reality does not of course settle the question of what aspects of reality it is most closely tied to. The usual interpretation is that it concerns the universal atemporal necessary aspects that Plato had proposed in his theory of forms and that Aristotle, while denying the transcendent forms, found to be a real structure in the things of this world. Hintikka's view—which he believes also holds for Plato's equation of the sensory with the changing—radically restructures the traditional understanding of both Plato's and Aristotle's attitude to the sensory. The theological aspect of Aristotle's essentialism is evident in that to some degree the necessity found in nature is given a religious meaning.
