Forget about the ‘correspondence theory of truth’
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The topic of truth is standardly presented as a contest between several rival theories of truth: the correspondence theory, the redundancy theory, the coherence theory, and perhaps also the pragmatic and epistemic theories. The correspondence theory is supposed to be the leading contender, the one to beat. It says that truth is correspondence to fact. Four-fifths of this picture is right. The redundancy theory, the coherence theory, and the pragmatic and epistemic theories really are rival theories of truth. They are incompatible. For instance, since the redundancy theory says
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تاریخ انتشار 2001