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Aristotle’s Conception of Truth: An Alternative View
- Journal of the History of Philosophy
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 51, Number 2, April 2013
- pp. 193-222
- 10.1353/hph.2013.0042
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The prevailing view among scholars is that Aristotle’s remarks on truth at Metaphysics Γ.7, 1011b26–27 express a correspondence conception of truth. However, although Aristotle thinks that truth depends on the world, his conception of truth does not require that either (a) there be some truthmaker such as a fact or a state of affairs that obtains to which truthbearers correspond, or (b) there be a some universal dependence relation that holds between truths and ontological entities. Aristotle’s conception of truth is more minimal. I focus on Aristotle’s semantic views and their relation to his ontology and psychology.