correspondence theory of truth

is made possible by "the openness of comportment". In other words, we can formulate correct claims only if we already behave in a way that opens us up to beings and opens up beings for us.

The answer, according to (2), is that correspondence is made possible by "the openness of comportment". In other words, we can formulate correct claims only if we already behave in a way that opens us up to beings and opens up beings for us. I may make the true claim, "On Wednesday we had half an inch of rain". This statement accords with the facts: it harmonizes with the reality of the water that hit the ground a few days ago. My statement is a case of "presentative correspondence": it corresponds to the rain, and presents, or re-presents, the rain to whoever hears my statement. But what allows me to make the statement in the first place? The rain must already be accessible to me, and I must take it as my standard for what I say. So I must pay attention to beings; I must be accessible to them so that they can be accessible to me.

is a correlate of the false abstracted conception of the world as a realm of neutral objects which the mind then ‘represents’ or processes.

is a conception of truth removed from our pre-reflective relation to the world and technicized into a logical property of certain sort of propositions.

Truth so conceived is removed from our pre-reflective relation to the world and technicized into a logical property of certain sort of propositions.

is flawed because the fact must show itself to be fact (as an unnoticed act, not as a correspondence) if knowledge and the proposition that forms and expresses knowledge are to be able to conform to the fact.

However, the fact must show itself to be fact if knowledge and the proposition that forms and expresses knowledge are to be able to conform to the fact. (PLT: 51). In other words, how could there be any perception of the correspondence of a judgement and things unless ‘truth’ in another, deeper sense were not already available to us, unnoticed.

is the flawed idea that truth means today and has long meant the agreement or conformity of knowledge with fact.

This so-called correspondence theory of truth correlates judgements on the one hand and a realm of objects on the other: Truth means today and has long meant the agreement or conformity of knowledge with fact.

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correspondence theory of truth