Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Rescher,N/Oppenheim,P, Anand Vaidya and Donald Davidson

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3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 1. Correspondence Truth

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Correspondence can't be defined, but it shows how truth depends on the world [Davidson]

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Names, descriptions and predicates refer to things; without that, language and thought are baffling [Davidson]

3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 3. Correspondence Truth critique

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Correspondence theories can't tell you what truths correspond to [Davidson]

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Neither Aristotle nor Tarski introduce the facts needed for a correspondence theory [Davidson]

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There is nothing interesting or instructive for truths to correspond to [Davidson]

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The Slingshot assumes substitutions give logical equivalence, and thus identical correspondence [Davidson]

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Two sentences can be rephrased by equivalent substitutions to correspond to the same thing [Davidson]