Single Idea 21750

[catalogued under 3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 1. Correspondence Truth]

Full Idea

Science, thanks to its links with observation, retains some title to a correspondence theory of truth.

Gist of Idea

Science is sympathetic to truth as correspondence, since it depends on observation

Source

Willard Quine (On the Nature of Moral Values [1978], p.63)

Book Reference

Quine,Willard: 'Theories and Things' [Harvard 1981], p.63


A Reaction

I would describe what he is affirming as a 'robust' theory of truth. An interesting aside, given his usual allegiance to disquotational, and even redundancy, accounts of truth. You can hardly rely on observations if you think they contain no truth.