correspondence theory

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correspondence
noun
uk
/ˌkɒr.ɪˈspɒn.dəns/us
/ˌkɔːr.əˈspɑːn.dəns/
letters, especially official or ...
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theory
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈθɪə.ri/us
/ˈθɪr.i/
a formal statement of the rules on which a subject of study is based or of ideas that are suggested to explain a fact or event or, more generally, an opinion ...
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The candidate-to-candidate sympathy relation is one of several distinct faithfulness relations provided bycorrespondencetheory.
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On acorrespondencetheoryof truth, reality also determines what is true.
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The richer one usescorrespondencetheoryto transmit information from the sympathetic candidate to the output.
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In this case, thecorrespondencetheoryof truth is completely uprooted.
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To be sure, this is again thecorrespondencetheory, and the 'dialectic' is often displaced to the level of philosophical abstraction.
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There being such gaps is compatible with an inflated and even acorrespondencetheoryof truth.
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Farabi's discussion of the truth condition consists in a brief -- account of what we would now call thecorrespondencetheoryof truth.
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The possible world semantics usually adopted for modal languages has different advantages: it is well studied and well understood, and the associated mathematics of "correspondencetheory" is extremely elegant.
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Correspondencetheory, which requires precision in such things, makes the difference clear by using indices to express the correspondence relation that is proper to each individual candidate.
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Thecorrespondencetheoryappeals to imaginary undefined entities, so it is incoherent.
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This modification of the consensus view is an appeal to thecorrespondencetheoryof truth, which is opposed to the consensus theory of truth.
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The basis of thecorrespondencetheoryis that there is a relationship among the natural (physical), the spiritual, and the divine worlds.
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The picture theory of language is considered an earlycorrespondencetheoryof truth.
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Such a person can wholeheartedly adopt acorrespondencetheoryof truth.
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However, it is not strictly necessary that acorrespondencetheorybe married to ontological realism.
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Epistemological realism is related directly to thecorrespondencetheoryof truth, which claims that the world exists independently and innately to our perceptions of it.
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Constructivism views all of our knowledge as constructed, because it does not reflect any external transcendent realities (as a purecorrespondencetheorymight hold).
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His pragmatic theory of truth was a synthesis ofcorrespondencetheoryof truth and coherence theory of truth, with an added dimension.
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The model is contrasted with thecorrespondencetheoryof truth.
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Seecorrespondencetheoryof truth.
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