Understanding deflationism

Nous-Supplement: Philosophical Perspectives

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 369-383

  Soames, Scott ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 61049195718     PISSN: 15208583     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1520-8583.2003.00015.x     Document Type: Article

References (4)

1. See chapter 8 of my Understanding Truth, (New York: Oxford Press), 1999 for criticisms of some well-known deflationist theories
2. Mark Richard, "Deflating Truth," in Truth, Philosophical Issues 8, edited by Enrique Villanueva, (Atascadero, CA: Ridgeview Publishing Co.), 1997, p. 59
3. Alfred Tarski, section 18, "The Semantic Conception of Truth and the Foundations of Semantics," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 4, 1944. In the paraphrased passage Tarski was talking about his semantic theory of truth. However, it has always struck me that the philosophical neutrality he claimed for his semantic theory was a good model of what deflationists should be aiming at
4. Richard, "Deflating Truth," page 63