ABSTRACT
Truth of expression consists in the linguistic correctness of a statement as an expression of a speaker’s belief. This is a matter of conformity with the semantic conventions which govern the use of the words and phrases of a given language, a question, in other words. The process of extraction consists in the working of all those cognitive functions that are the material for the theory of knowledge and the psychology of cognition—sensation, perception, concept formation, judgement and the rest. At this point, the phrase ‘correspondence theory of truth’ is seen to be a piece of uninformative shorthand for answers to the main problems of epistemology and cognitive psychology. A truth-bearer is strongly true if it is weakly true and also is used to refer to the situation that it adequately describes. This raises the question of what the readers mean by ‘affirmation’ or ‘assertion’.
