Deflationism (About Theories of Truth)

Armour‐Garb, Bradley

doi:10.1111/j.1747-9991.2011.00464.x

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“…'Deflationism' is an umbrella term for a host of views on truth (which have gained significant interest in recent years) that tend to share all or most of the following tenets: truth is not a substantive property, which admits of an explanatory analysis in terms of correspondence, identity, coherence, verification, etc. (hence, a theory that explains truth through the use of such substantive properties is said to be inflationist); the concept of truth is superficial and mundane, fundamentally irrelevant to metaphysics, semantics, and logic; the predicate "…is true" simply allows us to make some useful generalizations (when we say, for instance, things like "everything she said is true"), but it is, in most contexts, simply eliminable: "[T]o say that 'snow is white' is true, or that it is true that snow is white, is in some sense strongly equivalent to saying simply that snow is white, and this, according to the deflationary approach, is all that can be said significantly about the truth of 'snow is white'" (Armour-Garb et al, 2022). 10 Attributions to the Tractatus of a deflationary position (see Hacker, 2000, p. 386, and, for a more cautious deflationary interpretation, Dolby, 2017, pp.…”

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The Tractatus on Truth

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2023

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The aim of this paper is to discuss Wittgenstein's conception of truth in the Tractatus Logico‐Philosophicus. Section 1 sets the scene by exploring how the notion of truth is in the Tractatus intertwined with notions such as sense and picture. In section 2 I discuss a traditional interpretation that sees the Tractatus as committed to truth as correspondence. In sections 3 and 4 I discuss two more recent alternative lines of interpretation; according to one, we should interpret truth in the Tractatus as a relation of identity. According to the other, the Tractatus endorses a deflationary account of truth. I conclude in section 5 by adjudicating the interpretative debate.

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The Tractatus on Truth

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2023

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“…For attempts to prove at least some such ‘true’‐involving generalizations, see Field (1994, 2001, 2006), Hill (2002), and Horwich (1998, 2001, 2009). For replies to Horwich, see Armour‐Garb (2010, 2011), Gupta (1993), and Soames (1999).…”

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Challenges to Deflationary Theories of Truth

Armour‐Garb

2012

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“…In philosophy, this use of words is consistent with the redundancy theory of truth[23], which was pioneered by the Bayesian mathematician Frank Ramsey. According to the redundancy theory of truth, the phrase "it is true" is redundant because stating "it is true that Caesar was murdered" is identical to stating "Ceasar was murdered"[68].…”

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True value, error, and measurement uncertainty: two views

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Measurement uncertainty, as established in the Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement (GUM), is a central concept in metrology. The GUM is known for its detailed discussions on the concepts of true value and error and their relation to measurement uncertainty. However, the GUM statements on true value and error have been a source of conceptual controversies, sometimes leading to inconsistent or unclear descriptions on true value, error, and uncertainty. Here, we discuss that such controversies arise from an unclear distinction between two views of measurement with fundamentally different premises. In one of the views, called the realist view, measurement is regarded as an activity of estimating or determining the true value, in which case measurement uncertainty represents the dispersion of reasonable estimates of true values. In the other view, called the instrumentalist view, measurement is regarded as an activity of assigning values to a measurand, in which case measurement uncertainty represents the dispersion of values that could reasonably be assigned to a measurand. By examining the philosophy of measurement in each view, we show that a clear understanding of the two views is critical for understanding the GUM.

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Deflationism (About Theories of Truth)

Abstract: In this article, I provide a general account of deflationism. After doing so, I turn to truth‐deflationism, where, after first describing some of the species, I highlight some challenges for those who wish to adopt it.

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The Tractatus on Truth

The Tractatus on Truth

Challenges to Deflationary Theories of Truth

True value, error, and measurement uncertainty: two views

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