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Why must there be a distinction
between truth and falsity, reality and fantasy, or as Harry Frankfurt puts it,
between truth and bullshit? I do not argue that one must accept the notion of a
single external reality that everyone participates in order to discuss mental
health, I argue that one must accept that notion to discuss anything at all.
Correspondence theory of truth, where terms and their definitions are attempts
at pointing to things that exist outside of us (facts) in an external reality,
is the only way we can speak to one another with a shared vocabulary. The term
corresponds to the objective reality. What form the term/sign takes is