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Ideas for Hermarchus, Adolph Rami and Hilary Putnam

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3. Truth / H. Deflationary Truth / 1. Redundant Truth

2347	Asserting the truth of an indexical statement is not the same as uttering the statement [Putnam]
	Full Idea: If you say "I am going to drive this car", and I say "That's true", that is very different from my saying "I am going to drive this car".
	From: Hilary Putnam (Representation and Reality [1988], §4 p.68)

3. Truth / H. Deflationary Truth / 2. Deflationary Truth

18347	Deflationist truth is an infinitely disjunctive property [Rami]
	Full Idea: According to the moderate deflationist truth is an infinitely disjunctive property.
	From: Adolph Rami (Introduction: Truth and Truth-Making [2009], 10)
	A reaction: [He cites Horwich 1998] That is, I presume, that truth is embodied in an infinity of propositions of the form '"p" is true iff p'.