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'Metaphysics', 'Nature and Observability of Causal Relations' and 'Logical Properties'
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3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 1. Truth
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Truth is either intuiting a way of being, or a putting together [Aristotle]
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Simple and essential truth seems to be given, with further truth arising in thinking [Aristotle]
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Truth is a matter of asserting correct combinations and separations [Aristotle]
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3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 4. Uses of Truth
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Truth is a method of deducing facts from propositions [McGinn]
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3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 6. Verisimilitude
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If one error is worse than another, it must be because it is further from the truth [Aristotle]
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3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 1. For Truthmakers
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Truth-thinking does not make it so; it being so is what makes it true [Aristotle]
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3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 5. What Makes Truths / a. What makes truths
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The truth or falsity of a belief will be in terms of something that is always this way not that [Aristotle]
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3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 1. Correspondence Truth
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Falsity says that which is isn't, and that which isn't is; truth says that which is is, and that which isn't isn't [Aristotle]
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Aristotle's truth formulation concerns referring parts of sentences, not sentences as wholes [Aristotle, by Davidson]
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3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 3. Correspondence Truth critique
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'Snow does not fall' corresponds to snow does fall [McGinn]
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The idea of truth is built into the idea of correspondence [McGinn]
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3. Truth / D. Coherence Truth / 2. Coherence Truth Critique
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The coherence theory of truth implies idealism, because facts are just coherent beliefs [McGinn]
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3. Truth / H. Deflationary Truth / 3. Minimalist Truth
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Truth is the property of propositions that makes it possible to deduce facts [McGinn]
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Without the disquotation device for truth, you could never form beliefs from others' testimony [McGinn]
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