Abstract
The Logical Positivists’ theory of truth developed step by step from a correspondence-theory into a restrained coherence theory. The philosophical ideas which L. Wittgenstein has developed in his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, and which represent the logical and historical starting point of the Viennese Circle’s researches, are obviously characterized by a correspondence theory of truth. The logical form in which a molecular statement is constituted by atomic ones reflects the formal structure of facts; and, consequently, just as the existence or non-existence of a molecular fact is determined by the existence or non-existence of its atomic constituents, the truth or falsity of a molecular statement is determined by the corresponding properties of the atomic statements; that is to say: each statement is conceived to be a truth-function of the atomic statements. The evolution of the concept of truth people considered is intimately allied to a change of view concerning the logical function of protocol statements.
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