Assertion: truth | /r/CapableOf | consist in correspondence
Facets:
value: always
type: DEGREE
value: to (atomic) facts
type: OTHER
value: exactly
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Truth consists in correspondence.
text: Skepticism only doubts the possibility of ever knowing the truth of a proposition but simultaneously presupposes that truth would exactly lie in such a correspondence.
text: At the first stage, the basic truth-definition, say (1) from Section 3, is restricted to a special subclass of truthbearers, the so-called elementary or atomic truthbearers, whose truth is said to consist in their correspondence to (atomic) facts: if x is elementary, then x is true iff x corresponds to some (atomic) fact.
text: For their part, Horgan and colleagues propose a twist on the correspondence theorist’s claim that truth consists in a correspondence relation \(R\) obtaining between a given truth-bearer and a fact.
text: So, truth always consists in correspondence.