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Single Idea 6084

[catalogued under 3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 3. Correspondence Truth critique]

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 Reference

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.