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Full Idea
Science, thanks to its links with observation, retains some title to a correspondence theory of truth.
Gist of Idea
Science is sympathetic to truth as correspondence, since it depends on observation
Source
Willard Quine (On the Nature of Moral Values [1978], p.63)
Book Ref
Quine,Willard: 'Theories and Things' [Harvard 1981], p.63
A Reaction
I would describe what he is affirming as a 'robust' theory of truth. An interesting aside, given his usual allegiance to disquotational, and even redundancy, accounts of truth. You can hardly rely on observations if you think they contain no truth.
| 21748 | More careful inductions gradually lead to the hypothetico-deductive method [Quine] |
| 21749 | Altruistic values concern other persons, and ceremonial values concern practices [Quine] |
| 21750 | Science is sympathetic to truth as correspondence, since it depends on observation [Quine] |
| 21751 | Love seems to diminish with distance from oneself [Quine] |