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Single Idea 18359

[filed under theme 3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 2. Correspondence to Facts ]

Full Idea

One proposition can be made true by many different facts (such as 'there are some happy dogs').

Gist of Idea

One proposition can be made true by many different facts

Source

Marian David (Truth-making and Correspondence [2009], 1)

Book Ref

'Truth and Truth-Making', ed/tr. Lowe,E.J./Rami,A. [Acumen 2009], p.141


The 13 ideas with the same theme [how things are, independently of thought]:

Graspable presentations are criteria of facts, and are molded according to their objects [Chrysippus, by Diog. Laertius]
Proposition elements correlate with objects, but the whole picture does not correspond to a fact [Wittgenstein, by Morris,M]
A true proposition seems true of one fact, but a false proposition seems true of nothing at all. [Ryle]
Facts aren't exactly true statements, but they are what those statements say [Strawson,P]
The fact which is stated by a true sentence is not something in the world [Strawson,P]
Tarski showed how we could have a correspondence theory of truth, without using 'facts' [Hart,WD]
Facts can't make claims true, because they are true claims [Brandom, by Kusch]
Maybe facts are just true propositions [Lowe]
What makes a disjunction true is simpler than the disjunctive fact it names [David]
One proposition can be made true by many different facts [David]
The redundancy theory gets rid of facts, for 'it is a fact that p' just means 'p' [Engel]
Modern correspondence is said to be with the facts, not with true propositions [Horsten]
Instead of correspondence of proposition to fact, look at correspondence of its parts [Jenkins]