A Basically Semantic Analysis of the Nature of Truth

The notion of truth lies in the heart of human civilization. But the efforts of philosophers in every age to explicate the nature of truth, for a long and hard course, have not yet gained satisfactory effect. This shows profundity and complication of the notion of truth. Generally speaking, the notion of truth could be reduced into both the concept of scientific truth and the concept of common sense; the latter could be further reduced into both the general truth and the truth in ostensive contexts. The concept of truth in ostensive contexts is the original concept of truth. This paper, through independent and systematic analysis of the semantic role played by the true sentences in the ostensive contexts, tries to light upon what is the essential content of the intuition correspondenceconstituting the central point of the original concept of truth, and then to explain rigorously why the true sentences can report things as they really are.