- The Diamond Theory of Truth - http://math16.com/
Trudeau, in The Non-Euclidean Revolution, argued for his "Story Theory of truth" as opposed to the traditional "Diamond Theory of truth". This site defends Plato and diamond theory against postmodernists and story theory.
- What is Truth? - http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~ursa/philos/cert04.htm
Essay by Peter B. Lloyd covering the basic varieties of theories of truth, and Tarksi's semantics of truth.
- Coherence Theory of Truth - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth-coherence/
The truth of any (true) proposition consists in its coherence with some specified set of propositions. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by James O. Young.
- Deflationary Theory of Truth - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth-deflationary/
According to the deflationary theory of truth, to assert that a statement is true is just to assert the statement itself. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Daniel Stoljar.
- Identity Theory of Truth - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth-identity/
When a truth-bearer (e.g. a proposition) is true, there is a truth-maker (e.g. a fact) with which it is identical and the truth of the former consists in its identity with the latter. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Stewart Candlish.
- Revision Theory of Truth - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth-revision/
Theory developed in an attempt to analyze paradoxes such as the liar paradox that appear to show that common-sense beliefs about truth are inconsistent. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Eric M. Hammer.
- Correspondence Theory of Truth - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth-correspondence/
The thesis that propositions are made true in virtue of corresponding to facts; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by Marian David.
- Truthlikeness - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truthlikeness/
Discussion of notion of verisimilitude, closeness to truth; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by Graham Oddie.
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