Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Donald Davidson, Antonio Damasio and Mulligan/Simons/Smith

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3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 1. Correspondence Truth
18702 Names, descriptions and predicates refer to things; without that, language and thought are baffling [Davidson]
23292 Correspondence can't be defined, but it shows how truth depends on the world [Davidson]
3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 3. Correspondence Truth critique
10908 Correspondence has to invoke facts or states of affairs, just to serve as truth-makers [Mulligan/Simons/Smith]
18902 Correspondence theories can't tell you what truths correspond to [Davidson]
23298 Neither Aristotle nor Tarski introduce the facts needed for a correspondence theory [Davidson]
19148 There is nothing interesting or instructive for truths to correspond to [Davidson]
19166 The Slingshot assumes substitutions give logical equivalence, and thus identical correspondence [Davidson]
19167 Two sentences can be rephrased by equivalent substitutions to correspond to the same thing [Davidson]