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Ideas for 'Are there propositions?', 'Sets and Numbers' and 'The Evolution of Logic'

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

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A true proposition seems true of one fact, but a false proposition seems true of nothing at all. [Ryle]

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Tarski showed how we could have a correspondence theory of truth, without using 'facts' [Hart,WD]

3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 3. Correspondence Truth critique

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Two maps might correspond to one another, but they are only 'true' of the country they show [Ryle]

3. Truth / F. Semantic Truth / 1. Tarski's Truth / b. Satisfaction and truth

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Truth for sentences is satisfaction of formulae; for sentences, either all sequences satisfy it (true) or none do [Hart,WD]

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

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A first-order language has an infinity of T-sentences, which cannot add up to a definition of truth [Hart,WD]