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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Reason, Truth and History' and 'An essentialist approach to Truth-making'

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3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 1. Correspondence Truth
Before Kant, all philosophers had a correspondence theory of truth [Putnam]
3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 2. Correspondence to Facts
Graspable presentations are criteria of facts, and are molded according to their objects [Chrysippus, by Diog. Laertius]
3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 3. Correspondence Truth critique
How could you ever know that the presentation is similar to the object? [Sext.Empiricus on Chrysippus]
The correspondence theory is wrong, because there is no one correspondence between reality and fact [Putnam, by O'Grady]