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Ideas for 'Physics', 'Truth-making and Correspondence' and 'On Formally Undecidable Propositions'

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3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 1. Correspondence Truth

18364	Correspondence theory likes ideal languages, that reveal the structure of propositions [David]
	Full Idea: Correspondence theorists tend to promote ideal languages, ...which is intended to mirror perfectly the structure of the propositions it expresses.
	From: Marian David (Truth-making and Correspondence [2009], n 03)

3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 2. Correspondence to Facts

18357	What makes a disjunction true is simpler than the disjunctive fact it names [David]
	Full Idea: The proposition that 'L is happy or hungry' can be made true by the fact that L is happy. This does not have the same complexity or constituent structure as the proposition it makes true.
	From: Marian David (Truth-making and Correspondence [2009], 1)

18359	One proposition can be made true by many different facts [David]
	Full Idea: One proposition can be made true by many different facts (such as 'there are some happy dogs').
	From: Marian David (Truth-making and Correspondence [2009], 1)