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Full Idea
Correspondence, while it is empty as a definition, does capture the thought that truth depends on how the world is.
Gist of Idea
Correspondence can't be defined, but it shows how truth depends on the world
Source
Donald Davidson (Truth Rehabilitated [1997], p.16)
Book Ref
Davidson,Donald: 'Truth, Language and History' [OUP 2005], p.16
A Reaction
Just don't try to give a precise account of the correspondence between two things (thoughts and facts) which are so utterly different in character.
| 23287 | Disquotation only accounts for truth if the metalanguage contains the object language [Davidson] |
| 23288 | When Tarski defines truth for different languages, how do we know it is a single concept? [Davidson] |
| 23289 | Knowing the potential truth conditions of a sentence is necessary and sufficient for understanding [Davidson] |
| 23290 | It could be that the use of a sentence is explained by its truth conditions [Davidson] |
| 23292 | Correspondence can't be defined, but it shows how truth depends on the world [Davidson] |
| 23291 | Without truth, both language and thought are impossible [Davidson] |
| 23284 | Plato's Forms confused truth with the most eminent truths, so only Truth itself is completely true [Davidson] |
| 23285 | If we try to identify facts precisely, they all melt into one (as the Slingshot Argument proves) [Davidson] |
| 23286 | Truth can't be a goal, because we can neither recognise it nor confim it [Davidson] |