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Publication Date:
February 2012
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1613-3692
DOI:
10.1515/sem-2012-0004

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Semiotica

Journal of the International Association for Semiotic Studies / Revue de l'Association Internationale de Sémiotique

Editor-in-Chief: Danesi, Marcel

5 Issues per year

ERIH category 2011: INT2

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The correspondence theory of truth

1McGill University

Citation Information: . Volume 2012, Issue 188, Pages 65–75, ISSN (Online) 1613-3692, ISSN (Print) 0037-1998, DOI: 10.1515/sem-2012-0004, February 2012

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Published Online:
2012-02-18

Abstract

Two concepts of truth as correspondence of ideas with facts are analyzed. One of them is the thought-external fact relation, and the other is the fact-proposition one. The two maps are then composed, and the resulting map is assumed to formalize the concept of truth as adequacy or correspondence of ideas to facts. Besides, some desiderata for a correspondence theory of partial truth are proposed. Finally, the truth criteria employed in science and technology are recalled.

Keywords:: factual truth; formal truth; partial truth; proposition; representation; thought

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