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It is often thought that instances of the T-schema such as“ ‘snow is white’ is true if and only if snow is white” state correspondences between sentences andthe world, and that therefore such sentences play a crucial role in correspondence theories oftruth. I argue that this assumption trivializes the correspondence theory: even a disquotationaltheory of truth would be a correspondence theory on this conception. This discussionallows one to get clearer about what a correspondence theory does claim, and toward the end of thepaper I discuss what a true correspondence theory of truth would involve.

DOI: 10.1023/B:SYNT.0000004905.68653.b3

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