ABSTRACT
For P. F. Strawson, there just is no relation at all between true statements and facts. The trouble with correspondence theories of truth is not primarily the tendency to substitute non-conventional relations for what is really a wholly conventional relation. The characterization of correspondence that Strawson drew is a picture of an admittedly confused theory of truth. Russell took the theory of truth to be the "central doctrine" and indeed "the essential novelty and the point of real importance" of pragmatism. William James had intended his theory to provide a substantial definition of truth, to say just what the nature of truth is. In the 1930s Alfred Tarski launched his material adequacy condition (MAC) attack on the concept of truth and ever since philosophers have used, abused, misused, exploited, or misunderstood it. The 1920s and 1930s was the heyday of logical positivism. Viennese physicalism and anti-metapysics drifted westward.
