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Full Idea
Among the candidates [for truthbearers] are beliefs, propositions, judgments, assertions, statements, theories, remarks, ideas, acts of thought, utterances, sentence tokens, sentence types, sentences (unspecified), and speech acts.
Gist of Idea
There are at least fourteen candidates for truth-bearers
Source
Richard L. Kirkham (Theories of Truth: a Critical Introduction [1992], 2.3)
Book Ref
Kirkham,Richard L.: 'Theories of Truth: a Critical Introduction' [MIT 1995], p.54
A Reaction
I vote for propositions, but only in the sense of the thoughts underlying language, not the Russellian things which are supposed to exist independently from thinkers.
| 18369 | There are at least fourteen candidates for truth-bearers [Kirkham] |
| 19318 | A 'sequence' of objects is an order set of them [Kirkham] |
| 19319 | If one sequence satisfies a sentence, they all do [Kirkham] |
| 19315 | In quantified language the components of complex sentences may not be sentences [Kirkham] |
| 19317 | An open sentence is satisfied if the object possess that property [Kirkham] |
| 19320 | If we define truth by listing the satisfactions, the supply of predicates must be finite [Kirkham] |
| 19322 | Why can there not be disjunctive, conditional and negative facts? [Kirkham] |