disquotational love

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to disquotation.

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disquotation +‎ -al

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Examples

  • Rather, Quine emphasized that the truth predicate is a disquotational device (Quine 1970, 12).

    Him 2009

  • Recall, that, according to DQR, quotation marks have a semantic function and that function is spelled out in the disquotational schema (DQR).

    Quotation Cappelen, Herman 2009

  • Such a normative conception of truth is stronger than a notion of truth which is merely a device for ˜semantic assent™; that is, normative truth is more than thin ˜disquotational™ truth.

    Aesthetic Judgment Zangwill, Nick 2007

  • Even judgements of the agreeable, about the niceness of Canary-wine, can have access to an inconsequential disquotational conception of truth.

    Aesthetic Judgment Zangwill, Nick 2007

  • The deflationary theory has gone by many different names, including at least the following: the redundancy theory, the disappearance theory, the no-truth theory, the disquotational theory, and the minimalist theory.

    The Deflationary Theory of Truth Stoljar, Daniel 2007

  • It comes near to saying that truth is not a property at all; to the extent that truth is a property, there is no more to it than the disquotational pattern of the Tarski biconditionals.

    Truth Glanzberg, Michael 2006

  • But given Convention T, supertruth would then be disquotational.

    Vagueness Sorensen, Roy 2006

  • It is also important to note that in introducing the idea that a speaker's understanding of a sentence consists in her knowledge of its truth-condition, Dummett is packing more into the notion of truth than the disquotational properties made use of in §1 above.

    Realism Miller, Alexander 2005

  • ˜disquotational theory™ tends to apply to sententialist versions, and in fact to material sentential deflationism: position

    The Deflationary Theory of Truth Stoljar, Daniel 2007

  • What account can be given ” apart from the trivial disquotational one ” of the truth-conditions of moral statements?

    Moral Reasoning Richardson, Henry S. 2007

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