Concept

Deflationary theory of truth

Overview

In 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 the claim that assertions of predicate truth of a statement do not attribute a property called "truth" to such a statement.

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Philosophers who discussed Deflationary theory of truth

• Hartry Field
• Karl Popper
• Thomas Nagel
• Robert Nozick
• Alfred Tarski
• Jc Beall
• Paul Horwich
• Michael Devitt

Related ideas

• Philosophy
• Interpretation (logic)
• If and only if
• Liar paradox
• Logical conjunction
• Logical connective
• A. J. Ayer
• Domain of discourse
• P. F. Strawson
• Denotation
• Semantics
• Truth
• Michael Dummett
• Willard Van Orman Quine
• Metalanguage
• Quantifier (logic)
• Speech act
• Russell's paradox
• Logic
• Gottlob Frege
• Correspondence theory of truth
• Fact
• Alfred Tarski
• Semantic theory of truth

Place in the tradition

Part of Analytic philosophy.

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