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3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 1. Truth
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'The rug is green' might be warrantedly assertible even though the rug is not green [Putnam]
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3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 2. Defining Truth
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A comprehensive theory of truth probably includes a theory of predication [Davidson]
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3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 3. Value of Truth
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Antirealism about truth prevents its use as an intersubjective standard [Davidson]
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3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 8. Subjective Truth
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'Epistemic' truth depends what rational creatures can verify [Davidson]
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3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 1. Correspondence Truth
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We need the correspondence theory of truth to understand language and science [Putnam]
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3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 3. Correspondence Truth critique
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Correspondence between concepts and unconceptualised reality is impossible [Putnam]
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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]
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3. Truth / D. Coherence Truth / 1. Coherence Truth
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Coherence truth says a consistent set of sentences is true - which ties truth to belief [Davidson]
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3. Truth / F. Semantic Truth / 1. Tarski's Truth / b. Satisfaction and truth
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We can explain truth in terms of satisfaction - but also explain satisfaction in terms of truth [Davidson]
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Satisfaction is a sort of reference, so maybe we can define truth in terms of reference? [Davidson]
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Axioms spell out sentence satisfaction. With no free variables, all sequences satisfy the truths [Davidson]
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3. Truth / F. Semantic Truth / 2. Semantic Truth
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In Tarski's definition, you understand 'true' if you accept the notions of the object language [Putnam]
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Tarski has given a correct account of the formal logic of 'true', but there is more to the concept [Putnam]
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Only Tarski has found a way to define 'true' [Putnam]
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Many say that Tarski's definitions fail to connect truth to meaning [Davidson]
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Tarski does not tell us what his various truth predicates have in common [Davidson]
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Truth is the basic concept, because Convention-T is agreed to fix the truths of a language [Davidson]
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To define a class of true sentences is to stipulate a possible language [Davidson]
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3. Truth / H. Deflationary Truth / 1. Redundant Truth
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Truth is basic and clear, so don't try to replace it with something simpler [Davidson]
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3. Truth / H. Deflationary Truth / 2. Deflationary Truth
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Tarski is not a disquotationalist, because you can assign truth to a sentence you can't quote [Davidson]
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