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• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Is Truth Objective or Subjective?

  http://www.truthnet.org/Christianity/Apologetics/Truth2/
  An article that examines the nature of truth. Is truth objective or subjective? Can it be both?

• 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.

• 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.

• The Semantical Conception of Truth

  http://www.ditext.com/tarski/tarski.html
  Online text of Tarski's 1944 article.

• 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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