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Ideas for 'Confessions', 'A Plea for Substitutional Quantification' and 'The Correspondence Theory of Truth'

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3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 5. Truth Bearers

3745	Must sentences make statements to qualify for truth? [O'Connor]
	Full Idea: Maybe a sentence is not a candidate for truth until it is used to make a statement.
	From: D.J. O'Connor (The Correspondence Theory of Truth [1975], Ch.6)

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

3742	Beliefs must match facts, but also words must match beliefs [O'Connor]
	Full Idea: Our beliefs must claim a correspondence with facts, and then the verbal expression of the belief must correspond to the belief itself.
	From: D.J. O'Connor (The Correspondence Theory of Truth [1975], Ch.4)

3. Truth / F. Semantic Truth / 2. Semantic Truth

3744	The semantic theory requires sentences as truth-bearers, not propositions [O'Connor]
	Full Idea: The Semantic Theory of truth requires that sentences are truth-bearers (rather than statements, or propositions).
	From: D.J. O'Connor (The Correspondence Theory of Truth [1975], Ch.6)

3749	What does 'true in English' mean? [O'Connor]
	Full Idea: We do not seem to have any use in ordinary discourse for phrases like 'true in English', 'false in German'.
	From: D.J. O'Connor (The Correspondence Theory of Truth [1975], II.1)