Empirical Considerations Against Alethic Deflationism

Nulty, Timothy J.

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“…562–3), Khatchadourian (2011, pp. i–ii, 2–3), Lowe (2007, p. 259), Nulty (2007, 2008), and Schaffer (2008, p. 309). Additionally, on axiomatic and primitivist theories of truth, see Halbach (2011, chap.…”

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Primitivist theories of truth: Their history and prospects

Wyatt¹

2022

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Primitivists about truth maintain that truth cannot be analysed in more fundamental terms. Defences of primitivism date back to the early years of analytic philosophy, being offered by G.E. Moore, Bertrand Russell, and Gottlob Frege. In more recent years, a number of contemporary philosophers-including Donald Davidson, Ernest Sosa, Trenton Merricks, Douglas Patterson, and Jamin Asay-have followed suit, defending their own versions of primitivism. I'll begin by offering a brief history of primitivism, situating each of these views within the landscape of primitivist truth theories and detailing some of their core motivations and apparent shortcomings. To close the discussion, I'll offer a diagnosis of the prospects of primitivism, focusing on the mystery challenge, which has loomed large throughout the history of primitivist truth theories, and the methodology that should be used in evaluating primitivist (and other) truth theories going forward.

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“…S627–S628, § 5) briefly discusses these data and points to other relevant work by Barsalou (1999). Nulty (2008) provides a cautious discussion of how these data bear on conceptual primitivism. von Heiseler (2020) also offers an interesting, empirically‐informed hypothesis about the origin of truth , and Burge (2018, pp.…”

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Primitivist theories of truth: Their history and prospects

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2022

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From Infants to Great Apes: False Belief Attribution and Primitivism About Truth

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2023

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Is Truth Primitive?

Wyatt

2022

The Philosophical Quarterly

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Primitivist theories of truth have been defended by some of the luminaries of analytic philosophy, including the early Moore and Russell, Frege, Davidson, and Sosa. In this paper, I take up a contemporary primitivist theory that has been systematically developed throughout a sizeable body of work but has yet to receive sustained critical attention—Jamin Asay's primitivist deflationism. Asay's major ambitions are to defend a novel primitivist account of the concept truth and to harmonise that account with a deflationary theory of the property truth. I will elaborate a thoroughgoing critique of primitivist deflationism, arguing that we have reason to doubt all of the five theses that constitute the view. Along the way, I will also highlight a number of possible escape routes for the primitivist deflationist, explaining how they can make the view more resilient even as they compel us to rework some of its central commitments.

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Empirical Considerations Against Alethic Deflationism

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Primitivist theories of truth: Their history and prospects

Primitivist theories of truth: Their history and prospects

From Infants to Great Apes: False Belief Attribution and Primitivism About Truth

Is Truth Primitive?

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