Glenn Greenwald Debates James Risen: Is Donald Trump A Traitor?

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Richard Feldman, in Reason and Argument, discusses the basic idea behind the view that truth is correspondence to the facts. He states “To say that a sentence is true is to say that things really are the way the sentence says they are” (Feldman, 26). In The Power of Critical Thinking, Lewis Vaughn distinguishes between fact and opinion, and the importance of the relation between evidence and facts. In the debate between Glenn Greenwald and James Risen, two general problems arise, which go beyond the concerns about Putin, Trump, and the 2016 presidential election. The first pertains to what the terms we use mean, and how meaning impacts (1) the truth of a claim, and (2), how we understand a claim in the first place. (I.e., how we interpret it and what situations we think it applies to). The second problem, which became an overarching theme in the debate, pertains to the importance of evidence in relation to facts.