| 4. | What is Truth? | | | Essay by Peter B. Lloyd covering the basic varieties of theories of truth, and Tarksi's semantics of truth.
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| 5. | Coherence Theory of Truth | | | The truth of any (true) proposition consists in its coherence with some specified set of propositions. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by James O. Young.
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| 6. | Deflationary Theory of Truth | | | According to the deflationary theory of truth, to assert that a statement is true is just to assert the statement itself. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Daniel Stoljar.
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| 7. | Identity Theory of Truth | | | When a truth-bearer (e.g. a proposition) is true, there is a truth-maker (e.g. a fact) with which it is identical and the truth of the former consists in its identity with the latter. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Stewart Candlish.
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| 8. | Revision Theory of Truth | | | Theory developed in an attempt to analyze paradoxes such as the liar paradox that appear to show that common-sense beliefs about truth are inconsistent. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Eric M. Hammer.
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| 9. | Correspondence Theory of Truth | | | The thesis that propositions are made true in virtue of corresponding to facts; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by Marian David.
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| 10. | Truthlikeness | | | Discussion of notion of verisimilitude, closeness to truth; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by Graham Oddie.
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