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Single Idea 18364
[filed under theme 3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 1. Correspondence Truth
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Full Idea
Correspondence theorists tend to promote ideal languages, ...which is intended to mirror perfectly the structure of the propositions it expresses.
Gist of Idea
Correspondence theory likes ideal languages, that reveal the structure of propositions
Source
Marian David (Truth-making and Correspondence [2009], n 03)
Book Ref
'Truth and Truth-Making', ed/tr. Lowe,E.J./Rami,A. [Acumen 2009], p.155
The
12 ideas
from 'Truth-making and Correspondence'
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18354
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Correspondence is symmetric, while truth-making is taken to be asymmetric
[David]
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18358
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Two different propositions can have the same fact as truth-maker
[David]
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18355
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What matters is truth-making (not truth-makers)
[David]
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18356
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Correspondence is an over-ambitious attempt to explain truth-making
[David]
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18357
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What makes a disjunction true is simpler than the disjunctive fact it names
[David]
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18359
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One proposition can be made true by many different facts
[David]
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18360
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It is assumed that a proposition is necessarily true if its truth-maker exists
[David]
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18362
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Examples show that truth-making is just non-symmetric, not asymmetric
[David]
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18363
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Correspondence theorists see facts as the only truth-makers
[David]
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18361
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A reflexive relation entails that the relation can't be asymmetric
[David]
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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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18365
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If truths are just identical with facts, then truths will make themselves true
[David]
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