Thus not only does the concept of truth have multiple meanings, but crucial mathematical issues hinge upon this ambiguity. Beyond this the modern mathematical view of truth differs from the traditional mathematical view of truth (a), and the everyday sense of the term, which resembles it. For in a naïve sense truths are statements which accurately describe a state of affairs—a relationship – in some realm of discourse. In this view, the terms which express the truth name objects in the realm of discourse, and the statement as whole describes a true state of affairs, the relationship that holds between the denotations of the terms. This shows that the concept of truth employed in mathematics no longer has the same meaning as cither the everyday, naïve notion of truth, or its equivalent (a) as was used in mathematics, in the past (Richards, 1980, 1989).