Truth and Identity

Marian David

According to the identity theory of truth, true propositions do not correspond to facts, they are facts. I discuss the claim that a
correspondence theory of truth for propositions will inevitably collapse into the identity theory. The claim is supported by rather natural assumptions about the behavior of 'that'-clauses in truth-and-fact talk; in particular, by the assumption that 'that'-clauses rigidly designate propositions. I try to show that this assumption is less than obligatory: 'that'-clauses should be construed as referring to different types of things in different contexts.