adequationism

English

Etymology

adequation +‎ -ism

Noun

adequationism (uncountable)

1. (philosophy) The definition of truth such that a theory is true if there is a relationship of adequation or equivalence between the facts or state of the world and the details and implications of the theory.
   • 2012, N. Rescher, Forbidden Knowledge, page 25:

     Given the explication of "ideal coherence" at issue in the principles (P1) and (P2) […] it emerges that adequationism and coherentism are effectively co-ordinated.

   • 2013, Gustavo Bueno, Sciences as Categorical Closures, page 41:

     Adequationism only makes sense in the assumption that matter has a prior isomorphic structure preceding the supposed structure that the forms must also have themselves.

   • 2022, Enrico Volpe, Le vie dell'essere: Studi sulla ricezione antica di Parmenide, page 146:

     The antecedent of this argument is Gorgias' treatment of language in his On non-being, but inverted and used as an instrument to restore adequationism.