A tale of truth | Simon Blackburn
Philosophy For Our Times
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The Correspondence Theory of Reading
Wittgenstein thought that seeing this model was in some sense a paradigm for of finding the truth. Rach, Bikshite thought that's correspondence came known as the picture theory of reading and it's all very well but it doesn't seem to work for all facts if you think about it. It doesn't work very well for negative facts for example how could you show a picture showing that something didn't happen I've actually got a nice story about this family and we started off on the shores of place called Lock-Dewick under the five sisters of Quintel if any of you know the northwest of Scotland. There there was a holy tree in the grounds of the house
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