Date sent: Tue, 11 May 1999 10:43:07 -0700 From: KMO <kmo@c-realm.com> Organization: C-Realm To: virus@lucifer.com Subject: virus: coherence and correspondence Send reply to: virus@lucifer.com
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> Robin Faichney wrote:
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> > It's very close to the coherence theory of truth: that a true statement
> > is one that coheres with other statements. (Presumably that should be
> > "most other statements" or such, I can't recall it off-hand.)
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> > The alternative is the correspondence theory of truth: a true statement
> > is one that corresponds to reality.
> >
> > Of course, around here, most people are going to go for the
> > correspondence theory...
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> Well, I might lean toward the correspondence theory until Socrates asks me
> how a word can "correspond with" an object. What creates the correspondence?
> The speaker's intent? In that case, what would inhibit correspondence? If
> the answer is nothing, and any vocal sound can correspond with any object,
> substance, event, process, or conceptual category; if anything can
> correspond with anything given the requisite intent, then I think I'd
> probably want to take a closer look at the coherence option.
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> -KMO
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Truth is not to be found in a single word or its definition; it is a
property of a string of words in an interrelation which forms a
sentence or statement which represents an isomorphism of the
situation or state of affairs it is intended to describe.