Single Idea 18369

[catalogued under 3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 5. Truth Bearers]

Full Idea

Among the candidates [for truthbearers] are beliefs, propositions, judgments, assertions, statements, theories, remarks, ideas, acts of thought, utterances, sentence tokens, sentence types, sentences (unspecified), and speech acts.

Gist of Idea

There are at least fourteen candidates for truth-bearers

Source

Richard L. Kirkham (Theories of Truth: a Critical Introduction [1992], 2.3)

Book Reference

Kirkham,Richard L.: 'Theories of Truth: a Critical Introduction' [MIT 1995], p.54


A Reaction

I vote for propositions, but only in the sense of the thoughts underlying language, not the Russellian things which are supposed to exist independently from thinkers.