Pluralist theories of truth

Most traditional theories of truth are monist: that is, they hold that there is one and only property the having of which makes a belief or proposition true.

According to pluralism, ethical propositions might be true by more than one property, for example by virtue of coherence; propositions about the physical world might also be true by corresponding to the objects and properties they are about.

In some discourses, Wright argued, the role of the truth predicate might be played by the notion of superassertibility.

[1] Michael P. Lynch has recently advocated a different type of pluralism about truth.

In a series of articles and in his 2009 book Truth as One and Many Lynch argues that we should see truth as a functional property capable of being multiply manifested in distinct properties like correspondence or coherence.