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To claim that a belief is true is to claim, indirectly if not directly, that: if not directly," because existential beliefs, being directly about the meaning of things for us, are only indirectly about the structure of things in themselves.)

(1) the belief agrees with things as they really are, in their structure in themselves, independently of our beliefs about them;

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(I allow for the qualification, "indirectly, if not directly," because existential beliefs, being directly about the meaning of things for us, are only indirectly about the structure of things in themselves.)

4 August 1997