Veritas: The Correspondence Theory and Its Critics
In Veritas, Gerald Vision defends the correspondence theory of truth — the theory that truth has a direct relationship to reality — against recent attacks, and critically examines its most influential alternatives. The correspondence theory, if successful, explains one way in which we are cognitively connected to the world; thus, it is claimed, truth — while relevant to semantics, epistemology, and other studies — also has significant metaphysical consequences.\ Although the correspondence...
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A restatement of the correspondence theory of truth together with a defense against objections and alternative theories, including deflationism, minimalism, and pluralism.
1A guide to the issues12The fundamentals of correspondence truth313Eligible correspondence schemes614Brief statements of correspondence875Deflationism1256The perils of deflationism1517Interlude on progenitors1918Corresponding ...2199... to the world251
