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In my discussion of inferences I draw from Arthur Danto's reflections on truth as "correspondence" (6 September 2004), I say that bearing witness as such is the action of putting sentences (in the case of explicit witness) or actions (in the case of implicit witness) in position to correspond or not to correspond in the various ways in which witness claims that they do. By contrast, I say, doing theology as such is the different action of saying of given sentences that, were someone to assert them, or of given actions, were someone to perform them, she or he would assert or perform something that would or would not correspond in these various ways.

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