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Full Idea
We can say that the proposition that snow does not fall from the sky corresponds to the fact that snow does fall from the sky - in the sense that there is a mapping from fact to proposition.
Gist of Idea
'Snow does not fall' corresponds to snow does fall
Source
Colin McGinn (Logical Properties [2000], Ch.5)
Book Ref
McGinn,Colin: 'Logical Properties' [OUP 2003], p.90
A Reaction
A very nice difficulty for the correspondence theory. It becomes essential to say how the two things correspond before it can offer any sort of account of the truth-relation.