philosophy and logic, a deflationary theory of truth (also semantic deflationism or simply deflationism) is one of a family of theories that all have in common...
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theory of truth Correspondence theory of truth Deflationary theory of truth Identity theory of truth Revision theory of truth Tarski's definition of truth...
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philosophical redundancy theory of truth is a deflationary theory of truth. Redundancy theorists infer from this premise that truth is a redundant concept—in...
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sentences. The semantic conception of truth, which is related in different ways to both the correspondence and deflationary conceptions, is due to work by Polish...
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algorithm In philosophy, the use of a deflationary theory of truth, where the term truth is rejected as a real property of propositions Deflation (film)...
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Coherentism (redirect from Coherence theory of justification)
types of coherentism: the coherence theory of truth, and the coherence theory of justification (also known as epistemic coherentism). Coherent truth is divided...
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the ideal result of an endless inquiry, or if it meets the standards of warranted assertibility. Deflationary theories of truth see truth as a rather empty...
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Paul Horwich (category Academics of University College London)
to NYU in 2005. In Truth (1990), Horwich presented a detailed defence of the minimalist variant of the deflationary theory of truth. He is opposed to appealing...
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Expressivism (category Theories of language)
Expressivists tend to rely on a minimalist or deflationary theory of truth to provide an irrealist account for the truth of moral sentences. According to the open...
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Alfred Tarski (category Members of the Polish Academy of Sciences)
of this form, such as "Snow is white" is true if and only if snow is white as expressing merely a deflationary theory of truth or as embodying truth as...
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Theory of justification Topical logic Vagueness Anti-psychologism Conceptualism Constructivism Conventionalism Counterpart theory Deflationary theory...
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Robert Nozick (category American people of Russian-Jewish descent)
introduces his theory of truth, in which he leans towards a deflationary theory of truth, but argues that objectivity arises through being invariant under...
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Dorothy Grover (category Victoria University of Wellington alumni)
philosopher of logic who worked as a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She was known for prosententialism, a deflationary theory of truth in...
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Gottlob Frege (redirect from The Basic Laws of Arithmetic)
Truth – Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy; The Deflationary Theory of Truth (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). "Frege". Random House Webster's Unabridged...
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Hume – Deductive closure – Defeasible reasoning – Defeater – Deflationary theory of truth – Descriptive knowledge – Dharmarāja Adhvarin – Dialetheism –...
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Hartry Field (category Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni)
Tarski's theory of truth, which he has worked on since 1972. His current view on this matter is in favor of a deflationary theory of truth. His most...
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Epistemology (redirect from Theory of Knowledge)
Further theories of truth include pragmatist, semantic, pluralist, and deflationary theories. Truth plays a central role in epistemology as a goal of cognitive...
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Pragmatism (redirect from List of pragmatists)
Epistemology (truth): a deflationary or pragmatic theory of truth; the former is the epistemological claim that assertions that predicate the truth of a statement...
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of music Definitionism Definitions of fascism Definitions of logic Deflationary theory of truth Degenerate case Degenerated workers' state Degree of belief...
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interpreted, and continue to interpret, Tarski's theory as a deflationary theory, Popper refers to it as a theory in which "is true" is replaced with "corresponds...
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Eliminative materialism (category Metaphysics of mind)
Rey and Michael Devitt reply to this objection by invoking deflationary semantic theories that avoid analyzing predicates like "x is true" as expressing...
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Jc Beall (category University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Humanities and Fine Arts alumni)
relations of logical consequence. Beall is also widely known for advocating a glut-theoretic account of deflationary truth (Spandrels of Truth (2009) (glut...
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Daniel Stoljar (category Fellows of the Australian Academy of the Humanities)
of the Humanities. Retrieved 8 July 2024. Personal Website Daniel Stoljar at the ANU Stoljar, Daniel and Damnjanovic, Nic (2007), "The Deflationary Theory...
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an area of open land (the Bailey) ... Boudry and Braekman said that a retreat to the motte in a motte-and-bailey doctrine is a "deflationary revision"...
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Relativism (redirect from Relativity of Knowledge)
should try.' Rorty takes a deflationary attitude to truth, believing there is nothing of interest to be said about truth in general, including the contention...
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The Prize of the Foundation for Polish Science (Polish: Nagroda Fundacji na rzecz Nauki Polskiej) is the most prestigious scientific award in Poland given...
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Anti-realism (category Articles with Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy links)
or representing an independent reality. Instead, it adopts a deflationary view of truth and reference, treating them as pragmatic tools within discourse...
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including his rejection of instrumentalism and acceptance of a deflationary theory of truth. Part II, like part I, is composed of three chapters, and focuses...
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Theodore de Laguna (category University of Michigan faculty)
of Willard V.O. Quine - blog post by Joel Katzav (4 May 2018) Katzav, J. (2019) 'Theodore de Laguna's Discovery of the Deflationary Theory of Truth'...
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Invariances (section Truth and Relativism)
might turn out to be false. A deflationary tack towards putative philosophical necessities such as this timelessness of truth, attempting to convert them...
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