ПРАВИЛЬНОСТЬ И ИСТИНА

Correctness and Truth

Categories of logic and the theory of knowledge: Correctness (Logical) is a quality of logical operations and means their correspondence to the laws and rules of logic. As the forms of logical operations are common to processes and thoughts with different concrete content, the logical correctness or non-correctness of operations are not determined by the peculiarities of the concrete content of thought, but by the forms of thought.

Truth is a quality of thought and means its conformity to objective reality. In the final analysis, the concepts of correctness and truth characterise the relation of thought to the objective world, for the logical correctness is conformity of the operations of thought to certain relations of reality, of which the laws of logic are the reflection. These concepts are closely interrelated in the process of cognition. Logical correctness is a necessary (although not the only) condition of truth.

Idealistic logic and philosophy (particularly Kantianism, modern logical positivism, etc.), denying the objective origin of the laws of logic, also incorrectly interpret the logical correctness of thought, considering its basis to be laid a priori in the mind itself, in the consensus of people, etc.