The theory states that something (for example, a proposition or statement or sentence) is rendered true by the existence of a fact with corresponding elements and a similar structure.
The theory maintains that the truth or falsity of a statement is determined only by how it relates to the world, and whether it accurately describes (i.e., corresponds with) that world.
Historically, the most popular theory of truth was the Correspondence Theory. First proposed in a vague form by Plato and by Aristotle in his Metaphysics, this realist theory says truth is what propositions have by corresponding to a way the world is. The theory says that a proposition is true provided there exists a fact corresponding to it. In other words, for any proposition p,
p is true if and only if p corresponds to a fact.
Snow is White
Remarking that the proposition's truth is its corresponding to the fact that snow is white leads to the request for an acceptable analysis of this correspondence.
Presenting his theory of logical atomism early in the twentieth century, Russell tried to show how a true proposition and its corresponding fact share the same structure.
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus approach to curating.
Fumerton, R. (2002), Realism and the Correspondence Theory of Truth (Studies in Epistemology and Cognitive Theory)
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