I’m going to refrain from epistemological instruction but I would recommend you start with the Greeks and at least cover Kant and the analytical philosophers that followed.
The “true” way to answer a proposition is not even remotely as simple as you’ve described.
Or we could just deflate "truth" for this particular discussion, since what matters is whether predicting the next word works well enough without knowledge of the world. Pragmatically speaking, that's what matters.
The “true” way to answer a proposition is not even remotely as simple as you’ve described.