Single Idea 15333

[catalogued under 3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 2. Correspondence to Facts]

Full Idea

Modern correspondence theorists no longer take things to correspond to true propositions; they consider facts to be the truthmakers of propositions.

Gist of Idea

Modern correspondence is said to be with the facts, not with true propositions

Source

Leon Horsten (The Tarskian Turn [2011], 02.1)

Book Reference

Horsten,Leon: 'The Tarskian Turn' [MIT 2011], p.12


A Reaction

If we then define facts as the way certain things are, independently from our thinking about it, at least we seem to be avoiding circularity. Not much point in correspondence accounts if you are not a robust realist (like me). [14,000th idea, 23/4/12!]