ABSTRACT
According to the Coherence theory, the truth of a judgment consists in its coherence within a system of judgments. Common sense seems to support Correspondence, and would cite the usages of language as evidence that the view is widely, if not universally, held. In brief, whether or not Correspondence supporters say that singular affirmative propositions correspond, if true, to events, they will require facts rather than events for other propositions. But, whether or not truth involves a one-to-one relation between the elements of the proposition and the elements of the fact, it cannot consist only of that, i.e. although a one-to-one relation were a necessary condition of a proposition being true it could not be a sufficient condition. The truth of historical judgments is constantly being checked and confirmed or rejected, but not by the criterion of correspondence.
