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  2. Correspondence theory of truth - Wikipedia

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    Correspondence theory is a traditional model which goes back at least to some of the ancient Greek philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle. [2] [3] This class of theories holds that the truth or the falsity of a representation is determined solely by how it relates to a reality; that is, by whether it accurately describes that reality.

  3. Category:Theories of truth - Wikipedia

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  4. J. L. Austin - Wikipedia

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    His paper "Excuses" has had a massive impact on criminal law theory. [citation needed] Chapters 1 and 3 study how a word may have different, but related, senses. Chapters 2 and 4 discuss the nature of knowledge, focusing on performative utterance. Chapters 5 and 6 study the correspondence theory, where a statement is true when it corresponds to ...

  5. Robinson–Schensted correspondence - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, the Robinson–Schensted correspondence is a bijective correspondence between permutations and pairs of standard Young tableaux of the same shape. It has various descriptions, all of which are of algorithmic nature, it has many remarkable properties, and it has applications in combinatorics and other areas such as representation theory.

  6. Emanuel Swedenborg - Wikipedia

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    The basis of the correspondence theory is that there is a relationship among the natural ("physical"), the spiritual, and the divine worlds. The spiritual realm was seen by Swedenborg and believers in the New Church as "more real than the physical" and as a series of divided " spheres " where souls are sent depending on the level of morality ...

  7. Slingshot argument - Wikipedia

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    Thus, one way to look at the slingshot is as simply another argument in favor of Russell's theory of definite descriptions. If one is not willing to accept Russell's theory, then it seems wise to challenge either substitution or redistribution, which seem to be the other weakest points in the argument. Perry (1996), for example, rejects both of ...

  8. Correspondence (theology) - Wikipedia

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    The doctrine of analogy and correspondence, present in all esoteric schools of thinking, upholds that the Whole is One and that its different levels (realms, worlds) are equivalent systems, whose parts are in strict correspondence. So much so that a part in a realm symbolically reflects and interacts with the corresponding part in another realm.

  9. Correspondence - Wikipedia

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    1:1 correspondence, an older name for a bijection; Multivalued function; Correspondence (algebraic geometry), between two algebraic varieties; Corresponding sides and corresponding angles, between two polygons; Correspondence (category theory), the opposite of a profunctor; Correspondence (von Neumann algebra) or bimodule, a type of Hilbert space