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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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    Coherence theory of truth; Consensus theory of truth; Constructivism (philosophy of science) Correspondence theory of truth ... Wikipedia® is a registered trademark ...

  4. Truth - Wikipedia

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    A classic example of correspondence theory is the statement by the thirteenth century philosopher and theologian Thomas Aquinas: "Veritas est adaequatio rei et intellectus" ("Truth is the adequation of things and intellect"), which Aquinas attributed to the ninth century Neoplatonist Isaac Israeli.

  5. Sahlqvist formula - Wikipedia

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    An undecidable problem in correspondence theory. Journal of Symbolic Logic 56:1261–1272. Marcus Kracht, 1993. How completeness and correspondence theory got married. In de Rijke, editor, Diamonds and Defaults, pages 175–214. Kluwer. Henrik Sahlqvist, 1975. Correspondence and completeness in the first- and second-order semantics for modal logic.

  6. 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 ...

  7. Coherentism - Wikipedia

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    However, Spinoza and Kant have also been interpreted as defenders of the correspondence theory of truth. [11] In late modern philosophy, epistemic coherentist views were held by Schlegel [12] and Hegel, [13] but the definitive formulation of the coherence theory of justification was provided by F. H. Bradley in his book The Principles of Logic ...

  8. Thomism - Wikipedia

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    Nonetheless, a Thomistic theory of knowledge can be derived from a mixture of Aquinas' logical, psychological, metaphysical, and even Theological doctrines. Aquinas' thought is an instance of the correspondence theory of truth, which says that something is true "when it conforms to the external reality."

  9. Correspondence - Wikipedia

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    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; Correspondence analysis, a multivariate statistical technique