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'Metaphysics', 'A Realistic Theory of Categories' and 'Truth and Predication'
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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 / 2. Defining Truth
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A comprehensive theory of truth probably includes a theory of predication [Davidson]
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3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 3. Value of Truth
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Antirealism about truth prevents its use as an intersubjective standard [Davidson]
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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 / A. Truth Problems / 8. Subjective Truth
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'Epistemic' truth depends what rational creatures can verify [Davidson]
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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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There is nothing interesting or instructive for truths to correspond to [Davidson]
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The Slingshot assumes substitutions give logical equivalence, and thus identical correspondence [Davidson]
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Two sentences can be rephrased by equivalent substitutions to correspond to the same thing [Davidson]
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3. Truth / D. Coherence Truth / 1. Coherence Truth
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Coherence truth says a consistent set of sentences is true - which ties truth to belief [Davidson]
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3. Truth / F. Semantic Truth / 1. Tarski's Truth / b. Satisfaction and truth
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We can explain truth in terms of satisfaction - but also explain satisfaction in terms of truth [Davidson]
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Satisfaction is a sort of reference, so maybe we can define truth in terms of reference? [Davidson]
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Axioms spell out sentence satisfaction. With no free variables, all sequences satisfy the truths [Davidson]
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3. Truth / F. Semantic Truth / 2. Semantic Truth
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Many say that Tarski's definitions fail to connect truth to meaning [Davidson]
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Tarski does not tell us what his various truth predicates have in common [Davidson]
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Truth is the basic concept, because Convention-T is agreed to fix the truths of a language [Davidson]
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To define a class of true sentences is to stipulate a possible language [Davidson]
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3. Truth / H. Deflationary Truth / 1. Redundant Truth
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Truth is basic and clear, so don't try to replace it with something simpler [Davidson]
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3. Truth / H. Deflationary Truth / 2. Deflationary Truth
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Tarski is not a disquotationalist, because you can assign truth to a sentence you can't quote [Davidson]
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