drnickbone comments on [Poll] Less Wrong and Mainstream Philosophy: How Different are We? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: drnickbone 27 September 2012 09:30:46PM 0 points [-]

I think there might be a difference here between truth of a proposition and truth of a sentence.

Ascribing truth to a proposition looks the same as just asserting the proposition (deflationary account).

Ascribing truth to a sentence looks like a combination of mapping it onto a proposition (interpreting the sentence) and then asserting that proposition.

Since I would regard propositions and states of affairs as either the same, or isomorphic, this looks like the correspondence theory of truth for sentences.