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Hegel's Correspondence Theory of Truth

Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain, 1994
“The world”, said Wittgenstein, “is the totality of facts, not of things”. According to the “correspondence theory”, therefore, “the truth” will be the totality of assertions that state “the facts”. In Hegel's mature theory of “truth”, this is not “philosophical truth” at all, but the ideal limit of “correct statement”.“Philosophical truth” however ...
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Truth, correspondence theory of

2018
The two oldest theories of truth in Western philosophy, those of Plato and Aristotle, are both correspondence theories. And if the non-philosopher can be said to subscribe to a theory of truth, it would most likely be to a correspondence theory; so called because such theories are often summed up with the slogans ‘truth is correspondence with the facts’
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Alethic Pluralism and the Correspondence Theory of Truth

2013
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THE CORRESPONDENCE THEORY OF TRUTH

Philosophical Books, 1976
D. W. Hamlyn, D. J. O'Connor
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The truth of metaphor: An application of correspondence theory

2023
In this paper, I will briefly review the history of the principle of verification through an overview of the development of positivist theory, exploring the enduring and powerful effect that this perspective had at that time and the effect this paradigm has had on how we understand what constitutes scientific thought and scientific activity.
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Structural correspondence between theories and convergence to truth

Synthese, 2010
This paper utilizes a logical correspondence theorem (which has been proved elsewhere) for the justification of weak conceptions of scientific realism and convergence to truth which do not presuppose Putnam’s no-miracles-argument (NMA). After presenting arguments against the reliability of the unrestricted NMA in Sect.
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Correspondence and metaphysics: Andrew Newman's The Correspondence Theory of Truth

Inquiry, 2004
Andrew Newman's The Correspondence Theory of Truth is an extended presentation and defense of a correspondence theory of truth set out in the framework of metaphysics in the style of D. M.
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Forget about the 'correspondence theory of truth'

Analysis, 2001
It’s true that cats purr iff it’s useful to believe that cats purr, and since these two biconditionals are meant to be a priori, and since It’s useful to believe that cats purr iff cats purr is manifestly not a priori, the redundancy theory and the pragmatic theory conflict. Likewise, mutatis mutandis, for the redundancy theory versus the coherence and
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Defending the Correspondence Theory of Truth

2014
The correspondence theory of truth is a precise and innovative account of how the truth of a proposition depends upon that proposition's connection to a piece of reality. Joshua Rasmussen refines and defends the correspondence theory of truth, proposing new accounts of facts, propositions, and the correspondence between them.
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On Contemporary Forms of the Correspondence Theory of Truth

Soviet Studies in Philosophy, 1969
In a number of contemporary writings on epistemology, the theory of coherence (or internal harmony) (1) is contrasted to the correspondence theory of truth, according to which the logical truth of forms of cognition is determined by correspondence to their external referent: material reality, an object, a fact, an event, etc. This counterposition makes
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