Is a sentence true iff it corresponds to reality?
pp. 108-153
in: , Basic questions on truth, Berlin, Springer, 2000Abstract
Every sentence in which it is said that something exists says something about reality. And thus if such a sentence is true what it states about reality obtains. And if what the sentence states about reality obtains then it is true. According to Aristotle both of these implications hold:"… if there is a man, the statement whereby we say that there is a man is true, and reciprocally — since if the statement whereby we say that there is a man is true, there is a man. And whereas the true statement is in no way the cause of the actual thing's existence, the actual thing does seem in some way the cause of the statement's being true; it is because the actual thing exists or does not that the statement is called true or false."1