ABSTRACT
Some of the peculiar puzzlement that such questions generate arises from the fact that it is difficult to say what kind of an answer the peoples expect. Part of the remedy for this unsatisfactory state of affairs is to take care to make the question they are asking as precise as possible. The correspondence theory of truth may be regarded as a systematic development of the commonsense account of truth embodied in such dictionary definitions for ‘truth’ as ‘conformity with fact’ and the like. Taken at their face value, such definitions seem to be straightforward and uncontroversial. If, however, it is found that they cannot be developed systematically without disclosing inconsistencies and contradictions, this will be evidence that our commonsense ideas on the subject of truth and its allied notions.
