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Full Idea
The proposition: "It is true that this follows from that" means simply: this follows from that.
Gist of Idea
'It is true that this follows' means simply: this follows
Source
Ludwig Wittgenstein (Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics [1938], p.38), quoted by Robert Hanna - Rationality and Logic 6
Book Ref
Hanna,Robert: 'Rationality and Logic' [MIT 2006], p.155
A Reaction
Presumably this remark is simply expressing Wittgenstein's later agreement with the well-known view of Ramsey. Early Wittgenstein had endorsed a correspondence view of truth.
| 14777 | That a judgement is true and that we judge it true are quite different things [Peirce] |
| 19468 | The property of truth in 'It is true that I smell violets' adds nothing to 'I smell violets' [Frege] |
| 14176 | "The death of Caesar is true" is not the same proposition as "Caesar died" [Russell] |
| 3750 | "It is true that x" means no more than x [Ramsey] |
| 19197 | Truth can't be eliminated from universal claims, or from particular unspecified claims [Tarski] |
| 11074 | 'It is true that this follows' means simply: this follows [Wittgenstein] |
| 9011 | Truth is redundant for single sentences; we do better to simply speak the sentence [Quine] |
| 2347 | Asserting the truth of an indexical statement is not the same as uttering the statement [Putnam] |
| 19153 | Truth is basic and clear, so don't try to replace it with something simpler [Davidson] |
| 6335 | The redundancy theory cannot explain inferences from 'what x said is true' and 'x said p', to p [Horwich] |
| 12439 | Truth is dispensable, by replacing truth claims with the sentence itself [Azzouni] |
| 21640 | 'It's true that Fido is a dog' conjures up a contrast class, of 'it's false' or 'it's unlikely' [Hofweber] |
| 14008 | The redundancy theory conflates metalinguistic bivalence with object-language excluded middle [Bourne] |