Single Idea 19170

[catalogued under 3. Truth / H. Deflationary Truth / 2. Deflationary Truth]

Full Idea

It is clearly a mistake to call Tarski a disquotationalist. ...We say of a sentence not at hand (such as 'You gave the right answer to this question last night, but I can't remember what you said') that it is true or false.

Gist of Idea

Tarski is not a disquotationalist, because you can assign truth to a sentence you can't quote

Source

Donald Davidson (Truth and Predication [2005], 7)

Book Reference

Davidson,Donald: 'Truth and Predication' [Belknap Harvard 2005], p.150