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Comment author: potato 29 November 2011 08:46:06PM 1 point [-]

Peircian as in pragmatist? I always thought EY was a correspondence theorist with a hint of redundancy theory.

Comment author: Larks 30 November 2011 01:31:00AM 0 points [-]

He's written stuff like

"Snow is white" is true iff snow is white

suggesting that this got to the heart of Truth. Without any explicit mention of either correspondence or facts, I've always thought of this as a deflationary theory.

Comment author: potato 30 November 2011 01:57:52AM *  0 points [-]

To understand whether a belief is true, we need (only) to understand what possible states of the world would make it true or false, and then ask directly about the world.

That is from the LW entry on truth. Pretty clearly correspondence if you ask me.

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