ABSTRACT
The word ‘true’ is an English adjective and it is an ordinary function of adjectives in English that they stand for properties or qualities. Nevertheless, a preliminary investigation of the grammar of a word can act as a sort of range finder for closer and more detailed examination of its meaning. And it is obviously part of our task in investigating the correspondence theory of truth to get as clear as possible about the meaning of word ‘true’. Although ‘true’ is a property of beliefs or their symbolic formulations, a belief (or its expression) must be true in virtue of something external to the belief itself but to which the belief is in some way related. Truth then is a relational property and a theory of truth must spell out the nature of the relation. Logicians divide relations according to the number of individuals involved in the relation. Dyadic or binary relations which connect two individuals (‘larger than’ or ‘loves’).
