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Discussion of notion of verisimilitude, closeness to truth; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by
Graham Oddie.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truthlikeness/
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Correspondence Theory of Truth
The thesis that propositions are made true in virtue of corresponding to facts; from the Stanford
Encyclopedia by Marian David.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth-correspondence/
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Theories of Truth, A Guided Tour
Introduction by Jaroslav Peregrin.
http://dec59.ruk.cuni.cz/~peregrin/HTMLTxt/truth.htm
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Revision Theory of Truth
Theory developed in an attempt to analyze paradoxes such as the liar paradox that appear to show
that common-sense beliefs about truth are inconsistent. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Eric M.
Hammer.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth-revision/
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Identity Theory of Truth
When a truth-bearer (e.g. a proposition) is true, there is a truth-maker (e.g. a fact) with which
it is identical and the truth of the former consists in its identity with the latter. From the
Stanford Encyclopedia, by Stewart Candlish.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth-identity/
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Deflationary Theory of Truth
According to the deflationary theory of truth, to assert that a statement is true is just to
assert the statement itself. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Daniel Stoljar.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth-deflationary/
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Coherence Theory of Truth
The truth of any (true) proposition consists in its coherence with some specified set of
propositions. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by James O. Young.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth-coherence/
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What is Truth?
Essay by Peter B. Lloyd covering the basic varieties of theories of truth, and Tarksi's semantics
of truth.
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~ursa/philos/cert04.htm
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The Diamond Theory of Truth
Trudeau, in The Non-Euclidean Revolution, argued for his "Story Theory of truth" as
opposed to the traditional "Diamond Theory of truth". This site defends Plato and diamond
theory against postmodernists and story theory.
http://math16.com/
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The Semantical Conception of Truth
Online text of Tarski's 1944 article.
http://www.ditext.com/tarski/tarski.html
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In Spite of Davidson's Arguments for `The Folly of Trying to Define Truth', Truth Can Be Defined
Article by Dan Nesher presented at the 20th World Congress of Philosophy.
http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/TKno/TKnoNesh.htm
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