Truth, correspondence theory of
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10.4324/9780415249126-N064-1
DOI: 10.4324/9780415249126-N064-1
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References and further reading
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Aristotle (c.
mid 4th century) Metaphysics, in R.
McKeon (ed.) Basic Works of Aristotle, New York: Random House, 1941. (At 1011b26, the author states the earliest correspondence-as-correlation theory of truth in Western philosophy.) |
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Austin, J.L. (1950) ‘Truth’, in J.O.
Urmson and G.J.
Warnock (eds) Philosophical Papers, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1970. (A modern correspondence-as-correlation theory, originally published in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society supplement to vol. 24: 111– 28.) |
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Bealer, G. (1982) Quality and Concept, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Pages 11 and 186–203 offer a contemporary correspondence-as-congruence theory that identifies the fundamental elements of thoughts with the fundamental elements of states of affairs.) |
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Kant, I. (1781) The Critique of Pure Reason, trans.
N.
Kemp Smith, New York: St Martin’s Press, 1929. (The author’s words at A58 suggest a correspondence theory, which in light of the rest of his views could not be taken as implying ontological realism.) |
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Kirkham, R.L. (1992) Theories of Truth: A Critical Introduction, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (An introduction to theories of truth. Chapter 4 expands on the issues in this entry.) |
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McTaggart, J. McT.E. (1921) The Nature of Existence, vol. 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Pages 10–37 present the author’s correspondence theory in the context of his ontological anti-realism.) |
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Pitcher, G. (1964) Truth, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. (The only anthology of theories of truth in print. Somewhat dated, but still valuable.) |
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Plato (c.
366–360) Sophist, in E.
Hamilton and H.
Cairns (eds) Plato: The Collected Dialogues, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1961. (At 262E–263D the Stranger presents the Western world’s first theory of truth.) |
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Russell, B. (1912) The Problems of Philosophy, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (The chapter on ‘Truth’ is the prototypical modern correspondence-as-congruence theory.) |
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Sellars, W. (1963) Science, Perception and Reality, New York: Humanities Press. (Another modern example of an ontological anti-realist endorsing a correspondence theory.) |
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