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Single Idea 1704
[filed under theme 3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 1. Correspondence Truth
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Full Idea
Statements are true according to how things actually are.
Gist of Idea
Statements are true according to how things actually are
Source
Aristotle (On Interpretation [c.330 BCE], 19a33)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'Categories and De Interpretatione', ed/tr. Ackrill,J.R. [OUP 1963], p.53
The
35 ideas
with the same theme
[truth is a successful match between mental states and reality]:
13776
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Truths say of what is that it is, falsehoods say of what is that it is not
[Plato]
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35
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A statement is true if all the data are in harmony with it
[Aristotle]
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1704
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Statements are true according to how things actually are
[Aristotle]
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586
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Falsity says that which is isn't, and that which isn't is; truth says that which is is, and that which isn't isn't
[Aristotle]
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19165
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Aristotle's truth formulation concerns referring parts of sentences, not sentences as wholes
[Aristotle, by Davidson]
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22104
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Truth is the conformity of being to intellect
[Aquinas]
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9107
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A proposition is true if its subject and predicate stand for the same thing
[William of Ockham]
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4816
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A true idea must correspond with its ideate or object
[Spinoza]
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13000
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Truth is correspondence between mental propositions and what they are about
[Leibniz]
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5539
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We must presuppose that truth is agreement of cognition with its objects
[Kant]
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19071
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The deeper sense of truth is a thing matching the idea of what it ought to be
[Hegel]
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5783
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Propositions of existence, generalities, disjunctions and hypotheticals make correspondence tricky
[Russell]
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7395
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Truth as congruence may work for complex beliefs, but not for simple beliefs about existence
[Joslin on Russell]
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5428
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Beliefs are true if they have corresponding facts, and false if they don't
[Russell]
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6343
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For Russell, both propositions and facts are arrangements of objects, so obviously they correspond
[Horwich on Russell]
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18707
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All thought has the logical form of reality
[Wittgenstein]
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7087
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Language is [propositions-elementary propositions-names]; reality is [facts-states of affairs-objects]
[Wittgenstein, by Grayling]
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4702
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The account of truth in the 'Tractatus' seems a perfect example of the correspondence theory
[Wittgenstein, by O'Grady]
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10967
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Wittgenstein's picture theory is the best version of the correspondence theory of truth
[Read on Wittgenstein]
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7056
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Pictures reach out to or feel reality, touching at the edges, correlating in its parts
[Wittgenstein]
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21750
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Science is sympathetic to truth as correspondence, since it depends on observation
[Quine]
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10835
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True sentences says the appropriate descriptive thing on the appropriate demonstrative occasion
[Austin,JL]
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6266
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We need the correspondence theory of truth to understand language and science
[Putnam]
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7617
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Before Kant, all philosophers had a correspondence theory of truth
[Putnam]
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4742
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Correspondence may be one-many or many one, as when either p or q make 'p or q' true
[Armstrong]
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3742
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Beliefs must match facts, but also words must match beliefs
[O'Connor]
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18702
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Names, descriptions and predicates refer to things; without that, language and thought are baffling
[Davidson]
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23292
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Correspondence can't be defined, but it shows how truth depends on the world
[Davidson]
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3508
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Correspondence to the facts HAS to be the aim of enquiry
[Searle]
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4901
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Truth has to be correspondence to facts, and a match between relations of ideas and relations in the world
[Perry]
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6342
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Some correspondence theories concern facts; others are built up through reference and satisfaction
[Horwich]
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18364
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Correspondence theory likes ideal languages, that reveal the structure of propositions
[David]
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10354
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Correspondence could be with other beliefs, rather than external facts
[Kusch]
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22324
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It has been unfortunate that externalism about truth is equated with correspondence
[Potter]
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18337
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Correspondence theories assume that truth is a representation relation
[Rami]
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