No, you're confusing truth with fact again, and I'll demonstrate with some simple sentences; even you can't fuck up here:
"The circle is true"
"The circle is real"
"The statement 'the circle is true' is real"
"The statement 'the circle is real' is true"
The reason why the 1st and 3rd sentences don't really make sense, while the 2nd and 4th do, is because the 1st and 3rd treat truth as a property of reality itself, which is stupidly nonsensical. There is no theory of truth that does that. Truth is only a property propositions. The closest thing to what you're trying to do is the correspondence theory of truth, which sees truth as a correspondence between a fact (given state of affairs) and an assertion or belief.
So, your dictionary definition is correct; you are not. Facts pertain to reality itself, truth (in the ordinary, corresponding sense) deals with propositions. Reality cannot be true, because reality cannot contain falsity, only mind can imbue such in language. To say otherwise is to say that reality is NOT reality, and to not understand the definitions you yourself are putting forward.
In regards to the president example, "The current president of the United States..." is worded such to not be specific, so the fact that statement refers to does, in fact, change.
"The circle is true"
"The circle is real"
"The statement 'the circle is true' is real"
"The statement 'the circle is real' is true"
The reason why the 1st and 3rd sentences don't really make sense, while the 2nd and 4th do, is because the 1st and 3rd treat truth as a property of reality itself, which is stupidly nonsensical. There is no theory of truth that does that. Truth is only a property propositions. The closest thing to what you're trying to do is the correspondence theory of truth, which sees truth as a correspondence between a fact (given state of affairs) and an assertion or belief.
So, your dictionary definition is correct; you are not. Facts pertain to reality itself, truth (in the ordinary, corresponding sense) deals with propositions. Reality cannot be true, because reality cannot contain falsity, only mind can imbue such in language. To say otherwise is to say that reality is NOT reality, and to not understand the definitions you yourself are putting forward.
In regards to the president example, "The current president of the United States..." is worded such to not be specific, so the fact that statement refers to does, in fact, change.
"The reason things will never get better is because people keep electing these rich cocksuckers who don't give a shit about you."
-George Carlin
-George Carlin
