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What is a Correspondence Theory of Truth?

SynthÈse, 2003
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 andthe world, and that therefore such sentences play a crucial role in correspondence theories oftruth.
Patterson D
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A Recommendation for Correspondence Theory of Truth

Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 2016
The purpose of this paper is to show that the correspondence theory as a truth-maker theory has certain advantages over some of the other theories of truth. The cost of this advantage is postulating extra entities—facts. However, the benefits outweigh the costs; facts facilitate our understanding of the nature of truth made by the world.
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Don't Forget About the Correspondence Theory of Truth

Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2004
Abstract Contra Lewis, it is argued that the correspondence theory is a genuine rival theory of truth: it goes beyond the redundancy theory; it competes with other theories of truth; it is aptly summarized by the slogan ‘truth is correspondence to fact’;and it really is a theory of truth. In one of his very last publications, David Lewis
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The correspondence theory of truth

Semiotica, 2012
Mario Bunge
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Pragmatic Scruples and the Correspondence Theory of Truth

Dialogue, 2010
ABSTRACT: Cheryl Misak has offered a pragmatic argument against a position she calls “scientific transcendentalism.” Scientific transcendentalists hold that truth is something different from what would be believed at the end of inquiry; more specifically ...
Richard Kenneth Atkins
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Correspondence Theory of Truth [PDF]

According to the correspondence theory of truth a proposition is true if and only if it corresponds to a fact. The present entry explains this definition, outlines an ontology of facts, and sketches a theory of meaning that naturally accompanies the ...
Tino Schmidt, Matthias Schmidt
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A correspondence theory of truth? [PDF]

, 2002
The aim of this dissertation is to offer and defend a correspondence theory of truth. I begin by critically examining the coherence, pragmatic, simple, redundancy, disquotational, minimal, and prosentential theories of truth. Special attention is paid to
Newhard, Jay
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Representation and the Modern Correspondence Theory of Truth

2015
Michael Glanzberg, Glanzberg Michael
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On the Signifier Independence of Truth in the Correspondence Theory of Truth [PDF]

IOJ Sciences
The research approaches the correspondence theory of truth with Ferdinand de Saussure’s Sign Theory. By Kant’s epistemological constructivism, the research analyses into both the subjective and objective facets of epistemology in the correspondence ...
Pachankis, Yang I.
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Tarskian Truth And The Correspondence Theory

Synthese, 2001
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