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deflationism

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  • noun philosophy A theory proposing that assertions that predicate truth of a statement do not attribute a property called truth to such a statement.

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deflation +‎ -ism

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Examples

  • It has been suggested that minimalism or deflationism about truth or truth aptness can ride to the rescue of non-cognitivists at this point.

    Boys in White Suits 2009

  • If expressivists can give us an adequate account of a moral sentence, such as ˜Teasing the cat is wrong,™ then deflationism tells us that the same account should be sufficient for sentences like ˜It is true that teasing the cat is wrong.™

    Boys in White Suits 2009

  • The issues raised by deflationism are extremely complicated and we cannot hope to do them justice here.

    Material Constitution Wasserman, Ryan 2009

  • More would need to be said to give a full explanation of deflationism about truth, but this should suffice for our purposes.

    Boys in White Suits 2009

  • There is now a substantial body of literature on truth-deflationism in general and its relation to the correspondence theory in particular; the following is a small selection: Quine 1970, 1987; Devitt 1984;

    The Correspondence Theory of Truth David, Marian 2009

  • These considerations might drive dialetheism towards an anti-realist interpretation of the claim that there are dialetheias, true contradictions; and anti-realist dialetheic theories of truth have, in fact, been proposed lately (see e.g. JC Beall's ˜constructive methodological deflationism™, in Beall, 2004).

    Dialetheism Priest, Graham 2008

  • Still, the account sees first-person authority as justified by the subject's unique ability to express her states, and hence rejects outright epistemic deflationism.

    Self-Knowledge Gertler, Brie 2008

  • The relation of truth theories and (iterated) reflection principles also became prominent in the discussion of truth-theoretic deflationism (see Tennant 2002 and the follow-up discussion).

    Axiomatic Theories of Truth Halbach, Volker 2007

  • They accept an abundant conception of propositions, properties, etc., but combine it with a generous dose of deflationism.

    Propositions McGrath, Matthew 2007

  • Why couldn't the realist also appeal to deflationism to solve the problem?

    Propositions McGrath, Matthew 2007

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