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Full Idea
In Armstrong's version of the correspondence theory, the truth-making relation is not one-one, but one-many or many-one. Thus 'p or q' has two truth makers, p and q.
Gist of Idea
Correspondence may be one-many or many one, as when either p or q make 'p or q' true
Source
David M. Armstrong (A World of States of Affairs [1997], p.129), quoted by Pascal Engel - Truth Ch.1
Book Ref
Engel,Pascal: 'Truth' [Acumen 2002], p.22
A Reaction
Interesting. Armstrong deals in universals. He also cites many swans as truth-makers for 'there is a least one black swan'. Not correspondence as we know it, Jim.
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