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I believe that P, 2. I am justified in believing that P, 3. P is true, The three criteria are necessary. The omission of one of them leds to absurdity: 1. I know the Universe is expanding, although I do not believe it. 2. I know it will rain tomorrow, even though I can’t tell why. 3. I know that Tartu is the capital of Estonia. Some philosophers argued that these three conditions, taken together, are not sufficient to define knowledge. What is truth? We should avoid circulary definitions: Truth: ​a verified or indisputable face/an obvious or accepted fact. Fact: ​something known to be true. There are mainly two types of theories about the definition of Truth. 1. Correspondence theories 2. Coherence theories. Correspondence theories of Truth Truth is the correspondence to reality. A belief/representation is true if it corresponds to really and it is false if it does.