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Full Idea
Instead of considering only a proposition's 'correspondence to the facts', we should also consider the correspondence between parts of the proposition and parts of the world (a 'correspondence-as-congruence' view).
Gist of Idea
Instead of correspondence of proposition to fact, look at correspondence of its parts
Source
Carrie Jenkins (Grounding Concepts [2008], Final - Branching)
Book Ref
Jenkins,Carrie: 'Grounding Concepts' [OUP 2008], p.265
A Reaction
This is something like Russell's Othello example (1912), except that the parts there, with relations seemed to add up to the whole proposition. For Jenkins, presumably parts might correspond, but the whole proposition fail to.
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