An Identity Theory of Truth

This book argues that correspondence theories of truth fail because the relation which holds between a true thought and a fact is that of identity, not correspondence. According to Julian Dodd, facts are not complexes of worldly entities; they are, as Frege believed, true thoughts. The supposed truthmaker is nothing but the truthbearer.

The author christens this response to correspondence theories the modest identity theory, which he goes on to distinguish from those identity theories propound…