Topic: GENERAL LOGIC
What is a Correspondence Theory of Truth?
By Douglas Patterson
Source: Synthese
It is often thought that instances of the T-schema such as `` `snow is white' is true if and only if snow is white'' state correspondences between sentences and the world, and that therefore such sentences play a crucial role in correspondence theories of truth. I argue that this assumption trivializes the correspondence theory: even a disquotational theory of truth would be a correspondence theory on this conception. This discussion allows one to get clearer about what a correspondence theory does claim, and toward the end of the paper I discuss what a true correspondence theory of truth would involve.
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Updated: Monday, 27 September 2004 18:11 BST
