The correspondence theory of truth is a theory of truth, not a theory of justification. Correspondentists don’t match theories to reality, since they don’t have direct ways of detecting a mismatch, they use proxies like observation sentences and predictions. Having justified the a theory as being true, they then use correspondence to explain what it’s truth consists of.
The correspondence theory of truth is a theory of truth, not a theory of justification. Correspondentists don’t match theories to reality, since they don’t have direct ways of detecting a mismatch, they use proxies like observation sentences and predictions. Having justified the a theory as being true, they then use correspondence to explain what it’s truth consists of.