KCliffer@xxxxxxx schrieb:
> Paola,
>
> I'm trying to restrain myself, because I think we're coming to a basic
> agreement in this line of thought. (01)
I am happy to join what I take to be your agreement on the concept of
truth. Let me just test my understanding. (02)
In one of her mails, Paola wrote: "Truth (like falseness) is a quality
of a statement or assertion about reality." In philosophicl ontology, it
is sometimes necessary to distinguish between *monadic qualities* and
*relational qualities*. The quality of "being a sphere" is monadic;
when there is an instance of sphericity it simply inheres in a thing.
The quality of "being more spherelike than the Earth", on the other
hand, is a relational quality. If we claim "Venus is more spherelike
than the Earth", then we claim not only that Venus has a certain shape,
we also claim that this shape stands in a certain *relationship* to
another shape. Now, what has this distinction with the truth concept to do? (03)
In my understanding of Ken's nice exposition, truth as a "quality of a
statement" cannot possibly be a monadic quality, it has to be a
*relational quality*; it must bring in a relation of correspondence
between the statement and something that ought to be called a
*truthmaker*. To claim that a statement is completely true is to claim
that it has a relation of complete correspondence to a truthmaker; to
claim that it is truthlike is to claim that it has a relation of partial
correspondence to a truthmaker. (04)
Do you (at least Ken and Paola) agree?
Ingvar (05)
PS. Many contemporary philosophers do (I am sad to report) have the view
that truth is a monadic quality of statements (propositions). (06)
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