Full Idea
Let us be content with looking for truth in the correspondence between the propositions which are in the mind and the things which they are about.
Gist of Idea
Truth is correspondence between mental propositions and what they are about
Source
Gottfried Leibniz (New Essays on Human Understanding [1704], 4.05)
Book Reference
Leibniz,Gottfried: 'New Essays on Human Understanding', ed/tr. Remnant/Bennett [CUP 1996], p.398
A Reaction
In an age when the nature of truth was hardly debated, and theories such as coherence and pragmatism, never mind semantic accounts, were unthought of, it is interesting to see that correspondence seems obvious to Leibniz. Correct!