Aug 28, 1997 · Indeed, a deflationist can even agree that, for certain rhetorical or conversational purposes, it might be more effective to use talk of “correspondence to the facts”.

The idea is that truth plays a central role in the activity of stating facts. The deflationist response is that the assertion that truth is a norm of assertion can be stated only in the form of the following infinite …

To be a deflationist about truth is to focus on the role or function of semantic discourse (specifically, talk of what is true or false) without focusing on questions about the nature of truth.

Jun 3, 2025 · While not deflationist in the strictest sense, I argue that this approach offers compelling ways to address both the primary objections and the residual concerns effectively.

Truth - Deflationism, Philosophy, Logic: Philosophers before Tarski, including Gottlob Frege and Frank Ramsey, had suspected that the key to understanding truth lay in the odd fact that putting “It is true …

Jun 14, 2025 · Some key figures have been instrumental in shaping deflationist thought: Paul Horwich: Known for his minimalist theory of truth, which posits that the concept of truth can be fully captured …

May 20, 2019 · In what follows we examine the three versions of the insubstantiality claim we could identify in the deflationist literature and argue that none of them really entails the conservativity …

I will speak of the deflationist as thinking that truth is characterized by “the relevant schema”, but that should not be understood as my taking a stand on whether a schema or some quantified formulation …

Jun 3, 2025 · A deflationist treatment of “because” in truth-conditional semantics is forthcoming if one allows for rules of inference, alongside axioms, to specify meanings.

The deflationist must agree that whether a sentence can be properly called ‘true’ depends on the meaning it has, as well as on the way the world is. But then meaning is (at least) whatever …