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Correspondence Theory As A Genuine Theory Of Truth, Micah Philips-Gary

Ephemeris, the Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy

Kwasi Wiredu argues that the correspondence theory of truth is tautologous and thus not a genuine theory of truth. After contrasting his pragmatist theory of truth with what I call Peirce's pragmaticist theory of truth, in his terminology the realist conception of reality, I argue Wiredu's pragmatist theory of truth is not a theory of the sort of truth which correspondence theory is talking about because correspondence theory is a theory of truth full-stop, while Wiredu instead offers a theory of perspective-indexed truth. If we take the pragmaticist theory of truth as pointing us towards the criteria …