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3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 5. Truth Bearers
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Are truth-bearers propositions, or ideas/beliefs, or sentences/utterances? [Engel]
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3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 10. Making Future Truths
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The causes of future true events must exist now, so they will happen because of destiny [Chrysippus, by Cicero]
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3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 2. Correspondence to Facts
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Graspable presentations are criteria of facts, and are molded according to their objects [Chrysippus, by Diog. Laertius]
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The redundancy theory gets rid of facts, for 'it is a fact that p' just means 'p' [Engel]
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3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 3. Correspondence Truth critique
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How could you ever know that the presentation is similar to the object? [Sext.Empiricus on Chrysippus]
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We can't explain the corresponding structure of the world except by referring to our thoughts [Engel]
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3. Truth / D. Coherence Truth / 1. Coherence Truth
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The coherence theory says truth is an internal relationship between groups of truth-bearers [Engel]
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3. Truth / D. Coherence Truth / 2. Coherence Truth Critique
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Any coherent set of beliefs can be made more coherent by adding some false beliefs [Engel]
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3. Truth / H. Deflationary Truth / 2. Deflationary Truth
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Deflationism seems to block philosophers' main occupation, asking metatheoretical questions [Engel]
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Deflationism cannot explain why we hold beliefs for reasons [Engel]
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3. Truth / H. Deflationary Truth / 3. Minimalist Truth
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Maybe there is no more to be said about 'true' than there is about the function of 'and' in logic [Engel]
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