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Single Idea 18354

[filed under theme 3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 11. Truthmaking and Correspondence ]

Full Idea

Correspondence appears to be a symmetric relation while truth-making appears to be, or is supposed to be, an asymmetric relation.

Gist of Idea

Correspondence is symmetric, while truth-making is taken to be asymmetric

Source

Marian David (Truth-making and Correspondence [2009], Intro)

Book Ref

'Truth and Truth-Making', ed/tr. Lowe,E.J./Rami,A. [Acumen 2009], p.138

Related Idea

Idea 18362 Examples show that truth-making is just non-symmetric, not asymmetric [David]


The 11 ideas with the same theme [relation of truth-making to the correspondence theory of truth]:

All truths have truth-makers, but only atomic truths correspond to them [Wittgenstein, by Rami]
Truthmaker is correspondence, but without the requirement to be one-to-one [Lewis]
Correspondence is symmetric, while truth-making is taken to be asymmetric [David]
Correspondence is an over-ambitious attempt to explain truth-making [David]
Correspondence theorists see facts as the only truth-makers [David]
Truthmaker isn't the correspondence theory, because it offers no analysis of truth [Merricks]
The vagueness of truthmaker claims makes it easier to run anti-realist arguments [Button]
I support the correspondence theory because I believe in truthmakers [Cameron]
Maybe truthmaking and correspondence stand together, and are interdefinable [Cameron]
Truth-making is usually internalist, but the correspondence theory is externalist [Rami]
Unlike correspondence, truthmaking can be one truth to many truthmakers, or vice versa [Jacobs]