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Truth dependence against transparent truth
Beall’s (e.g., 2009, 2021) transparency theory of truth is recognized as a prominent, deflationist solution to the liar paradox. However, it has been...
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Truth and Satisfaction: Frege Versus Tarski
In this chapter I discuss the philosophical presuppositions and consequences of Tarski’s and Frege’s approaches to truth. Tarski’s is the most...
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Quine’s conflicts with truth deflationism
Compared to the extensive amount of literature on various themes of W.V.O. Quine’s philosophy, his immanent concept of truth remains a relatively...
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Thoughts and Truth
This chapter will extend the model developed in the last chapter to cover thoughts and truth and then use the model to give an account of belief...
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Truth Ascriptions as Prosentences: Further Lessons of the Principle of Propositional Priority
Truth is not one of a kind. Philosophers have widely assumed that truth is mysterious, intractable, troublesome, or else, trivial and redundant. I...
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Slurs and Redundancy
According to nearly all theorists writing on the subject, a certain derogatory content is regularly and systematically communicated by slurs. So...
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Truth and Knowledge in F. P. Ramsey’s Essays: a Pragmatic Overview
This paper aims to renew the “deflationary” interpretation of Ramsey’s theory of truth, with respect to his declared “pragmatist tendency,” which was...
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A Note on the Unprovability of Consistency in Formal Theories of Truth
Why is it that even strong formal theories of truth fail to prove their own consistency? Although Field ( Mind, 115 , 459,
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True lies and Moorean redundancy
According to the subjective view of lying, speakers can lie by asserting a true proposition, as long as they believe this proposition to be false....
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Wittgenstein and Redundant Truth
In the Philosophical Investigations , Wittgenstein is sometimes claimed to hold a redundancy (or deflationary) theory of truth. The main evidence to...
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Definition Versus Criterion: Ayer on the Problem of Truth and Validation
The age-old question “What is truth?” is not an unambiguous one. There are at least two different meanings. In one sense, it is a semantic question...
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That’s It! Hyperintensional Total Logic
Call a truth complete with respect to a subject matter if it entails every truth about that subject matter. One attractive way to formulate a...
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Normative realism and Brentanian accounts of fittingness
Brentano is often considered the originator of the fitting-attitudes analysis of value, on which to be valuable is to be that which it’s fitting to...
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Answering the conceptual challenge: three strategies for deflationists
We defend deflationism about truth against a pressing challenge, which is to explain how deflationists can understand the role that the concept of...
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Wittgenstein on Truth
This paper will address four related questions.—What is the account of truth that Wittgenstein gives in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus?
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Truth Attending Persuasion: Forms of Argumentation in Parmenides
Parmenides marks a watershed in the history of argumentation, presenting the earliest surviving sequence of recognizably deductive reasoning in the...
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The operator argument and the case of timestamp semantics
The Operator Argument against eternalism holds that having non-vacuous tense operators in the language is incompatible with the claim that every...
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A scoring rule and global inaccuracy measure for contingent varying importance
Levinstein recently presented a challenge to accuracy-first epistemology. He claims that there is no strictly proper, truth-directed, additive, and...
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Relevance as difference-making: a generalized theory of relevance and its applications
In this paper a generalized account of relevance as difference-making is developed. It is argued that relevance should not be considered as a...
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A Common-Sense Pragmatic Theory of Truth
Truth is a fundamental philosophical concept that, despite its common and everyday use, has resisted common-sense formulations. At this point, one...