Single Idea 2768

[catalogued under 3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 3. Correspondence Truth critique]

Full Idea

The correspondence theory as well as the coherence theory has the problem of more than one set of truths. Why can't two sets of propositions "fit the facts" equally well?

Gist of Idea

The correspondence theory also has the problem that two sets of propositions might fit the facts equally well

Source

Jonathan Dancy (Intro to Contemporary Epistemology [1985], 8.2)

Book Reference

Dancy,Jonathan: 'Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology' [Blackwell 1985], p.115