The article defends a modern version of the correspondence theory of truth, one which explains the truth of a statement in terms of referential relations between its parts and aspects of the world. Davidson's views on truth are discussed in detail and, in particular, a critical eye is cast over his degradation of the concept of reference which, if successful, would preclude the possibility of developing a full-blooded correspondence theory.
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Hymers, M. (2019). Truth and Reference. In Philosophy and Its Epistemic Neuroses (pp. 57–79). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429301605-4
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