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Full Idea
We must not move seamlessly from the thought that the correspondence theory must be deflated to the thought that any theory of truth must be deflated.
Gist of Idea
Deflating the correspondence theory doesn't entail deflating all the other theories
Source
Cheryl Misak (Pragmatism and Deflationism [2007], 2)
Book Ref
'New Pragmatists', ed/tr. Misak,Cheryl [OUP 2009], p.73
A Reaction
This rather good essay offers the idea that Peircean pragmatic approaches to truth can meet the deflationary desires of the opponents of correspondence, without jettisoning all the crucial naturalistic connections with reality. Interesting.
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