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The Correspondence theory of truth (n.) 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.

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The Correspondence theory of truth (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a correlate of the false abstracted conception of the world as a realm of neutral objects which the mind then ‘represents’ or processes.

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The Correspondence theory of truth (n.) 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.

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The Correspondence theory of truth (n.) 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.

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The Correspondence theory of truth (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the flawed idea that truth means today and has long meant the agreement or conformity of knowledge with fact.