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Single Idea 18365
[filed under theme 3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 2. Defining Truth
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Full Idea
According to the identity theory of truth, a proposition is true if and only if it is identical with a fact. ...This leads to the unacceptable claim that every true proposition makes itself true (because it is identical to its fact).
Gist of Idea
If truths are just identical with facts, then truths will make themselves true
Source
Marian David (Truth-making and Correspondence [2009], n 14)
Book Ref
'Truth and Truth-Making', ed/tr. Lowe,E.J./Rami,A. [Acumen 2009], p.156
The
12 ideas
from 'Truth-making and Correspondence'
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Correspondence is symmetric, while truth-making is taken to be asymmetric
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Two different propositions can have the same fact as truth-maker
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What matters is truth-making (not truth-makers)
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Correspondence is an over-ambitious attempt to explain truth-making
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What makes a disjunction true is simpler than the disjunctive fact it names
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One proposition can be made true by many different facts
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It is assumed that a proposition is necessarily true if its truth-maker exists
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Correspondence theorists see facts as the only truth-makers
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A reflexive relation entails that the relation can't be asymmetric
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Examples show that truth-making is just non-symmetric, not asymmetric
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Correspondence theory likes ideal languages, that reveal the structure of propositions
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18365
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If truths are just identical with facts, then truths will make themselves true
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