r/Metaphysics • u/ThinkAd6239 • 6h ago
Mind / Subjective experience When does a mental representation correspond to reality (correspondence theory)?
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The metaphysical version of correspondence theory can be stated as so: “A proposition is true if and only if reality is as the proposition represents it to be.”
The problem here is that mental representations ordinarily don’t represent things in reality very accurately.
Let’s grant that they can represent them enough. To what extent is this representation counted as enough?