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Full Idea
Because Truthmaker offers no analysis of being true, Truthmaker is not the correspondence theory of truth.
Gist of Idea
Truthmaker isn't the correspondence theory, because it offers no analysis of truth
Source
Trenton Merricks (Truth and Ontology [2007], 1.IV)
Book Ref
Merricks,Trenton: 'Truth and Ontology' [OUP 2007], p.15
A Reaction
I'm not convinced that the correspondence theory offers an 'analysis' of truth. It doesn't seem to do much more than offer a word which suggests an analogy with some relation in the world.
Related Idea
| 18349 | All truths have truth-makers, but only atomic truths correspond to them [Wittgenstein, by Rami] |
| 10846 | Truthmaker is correspondence, but without the requirement to be one-to-one [Lewis] |
| 18354 | Correspondence is symmetric, while truth-making is taken to be asymmetric [David] |
| 18356 | Correspondence is an over-ambitious attempt to explain truth-making [David] |
| 18363 | Correspondence theorists see facts as the only truth-makers [David] |
| 14390 | Truthmaker isn't the correspondence theory, because it offers no analysis of truth [Merricks] |
| 18696 | The vagueness of truthmaker claims makes it easier to run anti-realist arguments [Button] |
| 18871 | I support the correspondence theory because I believe in truthmakers [Cameron] |
| 18870 | Maybe truthmaking and correspondence stand together, and are interdefinable [Cameron] |
| 18338 | Truth-making is usually internalist, but the correspondence theory is externalist [Rami] |
| 12463 | Unlike correspondence, truthmaking can be one truth to many truthmakers, or vice versa [Jacobs] |