Quotation by

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.

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Hegel is saying that something is true when the idea or concept we have matches what actually exists outside of our minds. In other words, truth happens when our thoughts accurately reflect the real world.

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