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Single Idea 2347
[filed under theme 3. Truth / H. Deflationary Truth / 1. Redundant Truth
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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".
Gist of Idea
Asserting the truth of an indexical statement is not the same as uttering the statement
Source
Hilary Putnam (Representation and Reality [1988], §4 p.68)
Book Ref
Putnam,Hilary: 'Representation and Reality' [MIT 1992], p.68
The
13 ideas
with the same theme
[truth is an unnecessary meaningless concept]:
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14777
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That a judgement is true and that we judge it true are quite different things
[Peirce]
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19468
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The property of truth in 'It is true that I smell violets' adds nothing to 'I smell violets'
[Frege]
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14176
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"The death of Caesar is true" is not the same proposition as "Caesar died"
[Russell]
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3750
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"It is true that x" means no more than x
[Ramsey]
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19197
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Truth can't be eliminated from universal claims, or from particular unspecified claims
[Tarski]
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11074
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'It is true that this follows' means simply: this follows
[Wittgenstein]
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9011
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Truth is redundant for single sentences; we do better to simply speak the sentence
[Quine]
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2347
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Asserting the truth of an indexical statement is not the same as uttering the statement
[Putnam]
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19153
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Truth is basic and clear, so don't try to replace it with something simpler
[Davidson]
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6335
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The redundancy theory cannot explain inferences from 'what x said is true' and 'x said p', to p
[Horwich]
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12439
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Truth is dispensable, by replacing truth claims with the sentence itself
[Azzouni]
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21640
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'It's true that Fido is a dog' conjures up a contrast class, of 'it's false' or 'it's unlikely'
[Hofweber]
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14008
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The redundancy theory conflates metalinguistic bivalence with object-language excluded middle
[Bourne]
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