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[from 'Truth and Predication' by Donald Davidson, in 3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 3. Correspondence Truth critique ]

Full Idea

The real objection to the correspondence theory of truth is that there is nothing interesting or instructive to which true sentences correspond. (C.I. Lewis challenged defenders to locate the fact or part of reality to which a truth corresponded).

Gist of Idea

There is nothing interesting or instructive for truths to correspond to

Source

Donald Davidson (Truth and Predication [2005], 2)

Book Reference

Davidson,Donald: 'Truth and Predication' [Belknap Harvard 2005], p.39


A Reaction

Davidson defended a correspondence view in 'True to the Facts'. Davidson evidently also thinks the same objection applies to claims about truthmakers. If you say 'gold is shiny', the gold is very dispersed, but it is still there.