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(iv) Now a correspondence is a relation. But this goes against the use of the word ‘true’, which is not a relation word, does not contain any indication of anything else to which something is to correspond. If I do not know that a picture is meant to represent Cologne Cathedral then I do not know what to compare the picture with in order to decide on its truth.
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Pardey, U. (2012). The First Argument: Scientific Truth Is Absolute. In: Frege on Absolute and Relative Truth. History of Analytic Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137012234_4
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