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Single Idea 14390

[catalogued under 3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 11. Truthmaking and Correspondence]

Full Idea

Because Truthmaker offers no analysis of being true, Truthmaker is not the correspondence theory of truth.

Gist of Idea

Truthmaker isn't the correspondence theory, because it offers no analysis of truth

Source

Trenton Merricks (Truth and Ontology [2007], 1.IV)

Book Reference

Merricks,Trenton: 'Truth and Ontology' [OUP 2007], p.15


A Reaction

I'm not convinced that the correspondence theory offers an 'analysis' of truth. It doesn't seem to do much more than offer a word which suggests an analogy with some relation in the world.

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