13776 | Truths say of what is that it is, falsehoods say of what is that it is not [Plato] |
35 | A statement is true if all the data are in harmony with it [Aristotle] |
1704 | Statements are true according to how things actually are [Aristotle] |
586 | Falsity says that which is isn't, and that which isn't is; truth says that which is is, and that which isn't isn't [Aristotle] |
19165 | Aristotle's truth formulation concerns referring parts of sentences, not sentences as wholes [Aristotle, by Davidson] |
22104 | Truth is the conformity of being to intellect [Aquinas] |
9107 | A proposition is true if its subject and predicate stand for the same thing [William of Ockham] |
4816 | A true idea must correspond with its ideate or object [Spinoza] |
13000 | Truth is correspondence between mental propositions and what they are about [Leibniz] |
5539 | We must presuppose that truth is agreement of cognition with its objects [Kant] |
19071 | The deeper sense of truth is a thing matching the idea of what it ought to be [Hegel] |
5783 | Propositions of existence, generalities, disjunctions and hypotheticals make correspondence tricky [Russell] |
7395 | Truth as congruence may work for complex beliefs, but not for simple beliefs about existence [Joslin on Russell] |
5428 | Beliefs are true if they have corresponding facts, and false if they don't [Russell] |
6343 | For Russell, both propositions and facts are arrangements of objects, so obviously they correspond [Horwich on Russell] |
18707 | All thought has the logical form of reality [Wittgenstein] |
7087 | Language is [propositions-elementary propositions-names]; reality is [facts-states of affairs-objects] [Wittgenstein, by Grayling] |
4702 | The account of truth in the 'Tractatus' seems a perfect example of the correspondence theory [Wittgenstein, by O'Grady] |
10967 | Wittgenstein's picture theory is the best version of the correspondence theory of truth [Read on Wittgenstein] |
7056 | Pictures reach out to or feel reality, touching at the edges, correlating in its parts [Wittgenstein] |
21750 | Science is sympathetic to truth as correspondence, since it depends on observation [Quine] |
10835 | True sentences says the appropriate descriptive thing on the appropriate demonstrative occasion [Austin,JL] |
6266 | We need the correspondence theory of truth to understand language and science [Putnam] |
7617 | Before Kant, all philosophers had a correspondence theory of truth [Putnam] |
4742 | Correspondence may be one-many or many one, as when either p or q make 'p or q' true [Armstrong] |
3742 | Beliefs must match facts, but also words must match beliefs [O'Connor] |
18702 | Names, descriptions and predicates refer to things; without that, language and thought are baffling [Davidson] |
23292 | Correspondence can't be defined, but it shows how truth depends on the world [Davidson] |
3508 | Correspondence to the facts HAS to be the aim of enquiry [Searle] |
4901 | Truth has to be correspondence to facts, and a match between relations of ideas and relations in the world [Perry] |
6342 | Some correspondence theories concern facts; others are built up through reference and satisfaction [Horwich] |
18364 | Correspondence theory likes ideal languages, that reveal the structure of propositions [David] |
10354 | Correspondence could be with other beliefs, rather than external facts [Kusch] |
22324 | It has been unfortunate that externalism about truth is equated with correspondence [Potter] |
18337 | Correspondence theories assume that truth is a representation relation [Rami] |