 Candlish (1999b: 208) thinks that intrinsicism and the identity theory are competitors, but perhaps that view is not mandatory. Intrinsicism says that truth is a simple and unanalysable property of propositions; the identity theory says that a true proposition is identical with a fact (and with the right fact). These statements will seem to clash only if the identity theory is taken to propound a heavy-duty analysis of truth. But if, following recent exponents of the theory, we take it rather to be merely spelling out a connection between two entities that we have in our ontology anyway, namely true propositions and facts, and which turn out (like Hesperus and Phosphorus) to be identical, on the basis of a realization that an entity like that Socrates is wise is both a true proposition and a fact, then any incipient clash between intrinsicism and the identity theory will, it seems, be averted. On this approach, a natural thing to say will be that the identity theory describes the way in which truth is a simple and unanalysable property.