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All the ideas for 'The Logical Syntax of Language', 'Forget the 'correspondence theory of truth'' and 'Frege on Knowing the Foundations'

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

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To be true a sentence must express a proposition, and not be ambiguous or vague or just expressive [Lewis]

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 2. Truthmaker Relation

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Truthmakers are about existential grounding, not about truth [Lewis]

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 11. Truthmaking and Correspondence

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Truthmaker is correspondence, but without the requirement to be one-to-one [Lewis]

5. Theory of Logic / B. Logical Consequence / 1. Logical Consequence

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Carnap defined consequence by contradiction, but this is unintuitive and changes with substitution [Tarski on Carnap]

5. Theory of Logic / C. Ontology of Logic / 4. Logic by Convention

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Each person is free to build their own logic, just by specifying a syntax [Carnap]

5. Theory of Logic / K. Features of Logics / 1. Axiomatisation

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We come to believe mathematical propositions via their grounding in the structure [Burge]