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[from 'Introduction: Truth and Truth-Making' by Adolph Rami, in 3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 1. Correspondence Truth ]

Full Idea

One guiding intuition concerning a correspondence theory of truth says that the relation that accounts for the truth of a truth-bearer is some kind of representation relation.

Gist of Idea

Correspondence theories assume that truth is a representation relation

Source

Adolph Rami (Introduction: Truth and Truth-Making [2009], 05)

Book Reference

'Truth and Truth-Making', ed/tr. Lowe,E.J./Rami,A. [Acumen 2009], p.8


A Reaction

I unfashionably cling on to some sort of correspondence theory. The paradigm case is of a non-linguistic animal which forms correct or incorrect views about its environment. Truth is a relation, not a property. I see the truth in a bad representation.