Truth, correspondence and deflationism

doi:10.1007/s11466-009-0037-y

Front. Philos. China

2009, Vol. 4

Issue (4) : 563-575 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11466-009-0037-y

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Truth, correspondence and deflationism

James O. YOUNG,

Department of Philosophy, University of Victoria, Victoria BC V8W 3P4, Canada;

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Abstract The central claim of this essay is that many deflationary theories of truth are variants of the correspondence theory of truth. Essential to the correspondence theory of truth is the proposal that objective features of the world are the truthmakers of statements. Many advocates of deflationary theories (including F. P. Ramsay, P. F. Strawson and Paul Horwich) remain committed to this proposal. Although T-sentences (statements of the form “s is true iff p”) are presented by advocates of deflationary theories of truth as truisms or analytic truths, T-sentences are often understood as entailing commitment to the central proposal of the correspondence theory.

Keywords truth truthmakers deflationary theory of truth correspondence theory of truth T-sentences

Issue Date: 05 December 2009

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James O. YOUNG. Truth, correspondence and deflationism[J]. Front. Philos. China, 2009, 4(4): 563-575.

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