Abstract

INGTHORSSON, R. D.. There’s no truth-theory like the correspondence theory. discus.filos [online]. 2019, vol.20, n.34, pp.15-41. ISSN 0124-6127.  https://doi.org/10.17151/difil.2019.20.34.2.

I challenge the assumption that pragmatist, coherence, identity, and deflationary theories of truth are essentially rival views to the correspondence theory, but I do not endorse pluralism. Except for some versions of the identity theory, the alternative theories only seem to genuinely contradict the correspondence theory, either when they are combined with a rejection of an objective reality or when it is assumed that to offer a ‘theory of truth’ is to offer a theory of the function of the truthpredicate. I argue that the correspondence theory should not be understood as a theory about the function of the truthpredicate, and that the core ideas of the alternative views, once separated from any anti-realist convictions, are best understood as complementary views about different aspects of a fairly complex phenomenon, notably of how our beliefs relate to their subject matter and how we reason and talk about that relation.

Keywords : Correspondence Theory of Truth; Coherence Theory of Truth; Deflationary Theory of Truth; Pragmatist Theory of Truth; Identity Theory of Truth; Alethic Pluralism.

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