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Ideas for 'Logical Properties', 'Logic (Encyclopedia I)' and 'Reason, Truth and History'

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3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 1. Truth
4714 Putnam's epistemic notion of truth replaces the realism of correspondence with ontological relativism [Putnam, by O'Grady]
3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 2. Defining Truth
19070 Superficial truth is knowing how something is, which is consciousness of bare correctness [Hegel]
3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 4. Uses of Truth
6088 Truth is a method of deducing facts from propositions [McGinn]
3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 5. Truth Bearers
5644 In Hegel's logic it is concepts (rather than judgements or propositions) which are true or false [Hegel, by Scruton]
3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 7. Falsehood
19072 In the deeper sense of truth, to be untrue resembles being bad; badness is untrue to a thing's nature [Hegel]
3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 1. Correspondence Truth
19071 The deeper sense of truth is a thing matching the idea of what it ought to be [Hegel]
7617 Before Kant, all philosophers had a correspondence theory of truth [Putnam]
3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 3. Correspondence Truth critique
4716 The correspondence theory is wrong, because there is no one correspondence between reality and fact [Putnam, by O'Grady]
6084 'Snow does not fall' corresponds to snow does fall [McGinn]
6085 The idea of truth is built into the idea of correspondence [McGinn]
3. Truth / D. Coherence Truth / 2. Coherence Truth Critique
6083 The coherence theory of truth implies idealism, because facts are just coherent beliefs [McGinn]
3. Truth / E. Pragmatic Truth / 1. Pragmatic Truth
7616 Truth is an idealisation of rational acceptability [Putnam]
3. Truth / H. Deflationary Truth / 3. Minimalist Truth
6086 Truth is the property of propositions that makes it possible to deduce facts [McGinn]
6087 Without the disquotation device for truth, you could never form beliefs from others' testimony [McGinn]