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Ideas for Cleanthes, Plato and Anon (Job)

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3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 1. Correspondence Truth

13776	Truths say of what is that it is, falsehoods say of what is that it is not [Plato]
	Full Idea: Those statements that say of the things that are that they are, are true, while those that say of the things that are that they are not, are false.
	From: Plato (Cratylus [c.377 BCE], 385b)
	A reaction: It was quite a shock to discover this, because the famous Aristotle definition (Idea 586) is always quoted, and no modern writers seem to have any awareness of the Plato remark. Classical scholarship is very poor in analytic philosophy.