For me, the most intriguing part of the toolkit is the section that defines truth as, "the correspondence of a statement with the way the world is." I agree that one could define truth in a statement, as a statement implies an observer and an observer is required to make a claim. However, I question the phrasing, as it doesn't seem to leave room for a true statement about what could be, but perhaps saying that an idea or future event is a certain truth uses the term in too metaphoric a sense. One could use phrases such as, "searching for the truth" to loosely describe arguments in logic, but they have been used too often to mean achieving an uncertain goal instead. I would say that some truths are self-evident, and even though they my not reflect the way the world is in any way, we still speak of these ideals as truths. It might be that claiming a truth to be self-evident is specifically an axiological claim, and therefore does not pertain to the other branches.
This statement got me thinking about how to define "truth" as a general term, and I would like to hear if anyone else has their own definition.
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