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Single Idea 17740
[filed under theme 3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 2. Correspondence to Facts
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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.
Related Idea
Idea 6342
Some correspondence theories concern facts; others are built up through reference and satisfaction [Horwich]
The
17 ideas
from 'Grounding Concepts'
17719
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Arithmetic concepts are indispensable because they accurately map the world
[Jenkins]
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17718
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Grounded concepts are trustworthy maps of the world
[Jenkins]
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17717
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Senses produce concepts that map the world, and arithmetic is known through these concepts
[Jenkins]
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17720
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There's essential, modal, explanatory, conceptual, metaphysical and constitutive dependence
[Jenkins, by PG]
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17723
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Knowledge is true belief which can be explained just by citing the proposition believed
[Jenkins]
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17725
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'Analytic' can be conceptual, or by meaning, or predicate inclusion, or definition...
[Jenkins]
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17724
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It is not easy to show that Hume's Principle is analytic or definitive in the required sense
[Jenkins]
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17727
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We can learn about the world by studying the grounding of our concepts
[Jenkins]
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17726
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Examining accurate, justified or grounded concepts brings understanding of the world
[Jenkins]
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17728
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The concepts we have to use for categorising are ones which map the real world well
[Jenkins]
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17729
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Examining concepts can recover information obtained through the senses
[Jenkins]
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17730
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Combining the concepts of negation and finiteness gives the concept of infinity
[Jenkins]
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17731
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Verificationism is better if it says meaningfulness needs concepts grounded in the senses
[Jenkins]
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17732
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Success semantics explains representation in terms of success in action
[Jenkins]
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17734
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It is not enough that intuition be reliable - we need to know why it is reliable
[Jenkins]
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17739
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The physical effect of world on brain explains the concepts we possess
[Jenkins]
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17740
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Instead of correspondence of proposition to fact, look at correspondence of its parts
[Jenkins]
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