Aug 28, 1997 · Jody Azzouni (1999) defends the “first-order deflationist”, viz., a deflationist who endorses what Waxman (ibid.) calls “the axiomatic conception of arithmetic” and whose …

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 …

Jan 21, 2025 · By Ambrose Antonio Resa Email: [email protected] IG: @ambrose Deflationism is a theory of truth that tackles the question of “what is truth,” not to be mistaken with what is true …

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 …

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.

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.

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.

Feb 5, 2015 · Presumably not all philosophers who reject (non-trivial) explicit definitions of truth qualify as deflationist; Donald Davidson's axiomatic account of truth, for instance, is usually …

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 …

A philosopher proposes a new deflationist view of truth, based on contemporary proof-theoretic approaches. In The Tarskian Turn, Leon Horsten investigates the relationship between formal …