Editing Direction of fit (section)

==In medieval philosophy==
According to [[Thomas Aquinas]] (''[[Summa Theologica]]'', Part I, Question 21, Article 2), there are two kinds of "[[truth]]" (''veritas''), both understood as [[correspondence theory of truth|correspondence]] between mind (''intellectus'') or words (''oratio'') and world ("things", ''res''):
{{quotation|Truth consists in the equation of [thing and mind] (''[[adaequatio rei et intellectus]]''), as said above. Now the mind, that is the cause of the thing, is related to it as its rule and measure; whereas the converse is the case with the mind that receives its knowledge from things.<br>
When, therefore, things are the measure and rule of the mind, truth consists in ''the equation of the mind to the thing'', as happens in ourselves. For according as a thing is, or is not, our thoughts or our words about it are true or false.<br>
But when the mind is the rule or measure of things, truth consists in ''the equation of the thing to the mind''; just as the work of an artist is said to be true, when it is in accordance with his art. Now as works of art are related to art, so are works of justice related to the law with which they accord. Therefore, God's justice, which establishes things in the order conformable to the rule of His wisdom, which is the law of His justice, is suitably called truth. Thus, we also in human affairs speak of the truth of justice. (''emphasis added to original'')}}