ABSTRACT
The heart of the account of truth offered here is this: A statement is true if and only if it expresses a true proposition; a proposition is true if and only if there is a fact to which it corresponds. Unlike tautologies and contradictions, the truth or falsity of any statement made by using it is a matter of what the facts are. However, the facts involved in determining their truth do not seem to be constitutive properties of the world but rather properties of either themselves or the propositions they express. This chapter examines the prospects of including tautologies and contradictions in the range of applicability of the theory. Statements that somehow make reference to propositions are what Fred Sommers has called comments. The chapter shows how the present theory can accommodate the Liar (a test for any serious account of truth).
