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Full Idea
Truth is a property of a proposition from which one can deduce the fact stated by the proposition.
Gist of Idea
Truth is the property of propositions that makes it possible to deduce facts
Source
Colin McGinn (Logical Properties [2000], Ch.5)
Book Ref
McGinn,Colin: 'Logical Properties' [OUP 2003], p.96
A Reaction
This is McGinn's explanation of the disquotational account of truth ('p' is true iff p). The redundancy theorist would reply that you can deduce p from 'p' without mentioning truth, but it remains to ask why this deduction is possible.
| 6022 | Someone who says 'it is day' proposes it is day, and it is true if it is day [Zeno of Citium, by Diog. Laertius] |
| 6087 | Without the disquotation device for truth, you could never form beliefs from others' testimony [McGinn] |
| 6086 | Truth is the property of propositions that makes it possible to deduce facts [McGinn] |
| 6345 | Minimalism is incoherent, as it implies that truth both is and is not a property [Boghossian, by Horwich] |
| 4751 | Maybe there is no more to be said about 'true' than there is about the function of 'and' in logic [Engel] |
| 17990 | Instances of minimal truth miss out propositions inexpressible in current English [Hofweber] |
| 4687 | Minimal theories of truth avoid ontological commitment to such things as 'facts' or 'reality' [PG] |