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[from 'New Essays on Human Understanding' by Gottfried Leibniz, in 3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 1. Correspondence Truth ]

Full Idea

Let us be content with looking for truth in the correspondence between the propositions which are in the mind and the things which they are about.

Gist of Idea

Truth is correspondence between mental propositions and what they are about

Source

Gottfried Leibniz (New Essays on Human Understanding [1704], 4.05)

Book Reference

Leibniz,Gottfried: 'New Essays on Human Understanding', ed/tr. Remnant/Bennett [CUP 1996], p.398


A Reaction

In an age when the nature of truth was hardly debated, and theories such as coherence and pragmatism, never mind semantic accounts, were unthought of, it is interesting to see that correspondence seems obvious to Leibniz. Correct!