[lbo-talk] contradiction

[Tahir Wood]

> Plato, to start with. But "the correspondence theory of truth" is
> self-evident and can be denied only by sophists.  That is why Plato
> deals with this subject precisely in the dialogue called "The
Sophist."
>
> Shane Mage
>
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*Show us the quote[s].*

Nowadays there is *no* consensus on the correspondence theory of
truth.

"Plato isn't even wrong" [Gerald Edelman]

Self-evidence is incoherent.

I could go on..........

Ian

Well nowadays there's very little consensus about anything in
philosophy. But isn't this debate perpetuating a confusion between
'correspondence theory of truth' on the one hand and realism on the
other. Personally I regard realism as pretty close to what one might
call 'self-evidence' (at least in the sense that the burden of proof
lies with the anti-realists). But I don't think that realism requires a
'correspondence theory of truth'.
Tahir
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