The strictest form of the theory defines truth as a structural correspondence between what is true (a belief, judgment, proposition, sentence, and so on) and what makes it true (an event, fact, state of affairs, and so on).
Because of difficulties in defining such a relation (difficulties also facing the PICTURE THEORY OF MEANING), the theory is often weakened to saying simply that what is true is so because there is a relevant fact, without any correspondence of structure.
In an even weaker version (held by Aristotle) something is true if it simply ‘says things as they are,’ a view which approaches the REDUNDANCY THEORY OF TRUTH (also see: SEMANTICS, TRUTH-CONDITIONAL).
Like the COHERENCE THEORY, the correspondence theory may offer merely a criterion (rather than an analysis) of truth.
Source:
D W Hamlyn, “The Correspondence Theory of Truth’, Philosophical Quarterly (1962)
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- 2.1 Defending the Correspondence Theory of Truth
- 2.2 The Correspondence Theory of Truth: An Essay on the Metaphysics of Predication (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy)
- 2.3 Bare Facts and Naked Truths: A New Correspondence Theory of Truth
- 2.4 Realism and the Correspondence Theory of Truth (Studies in Epistemology and Cognitive Theory)
- 2.5 Bare Facts and Naked Truths: A New Correspondence Theory of Truth
- 2.6 Truth (Princeton Foundations of Contemporary Philosophy)
- 2.7 Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Bondswoman of Olden Time, With a History of Her Labors and Correspondence Drawn from Her "Book of Life" (The Schomburg ... of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)
- 2.8 The correspondence theory of truth (Hutchinson university library)
- 2.9 Veritas: The Correspondence Theory and Its Critics (Bradford Books)
- 2.10 The Possibility of Relative Truth: An Examination of the Possibility of Truth Relativism Within Coherence and Correspondence Host Theories of Truth (Routledge Revivals)
- coherence theory of truth
- performative (or ditto) theory of truth
- redundancy theory of truth
- truth conditional semantics
- truth theory
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