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Full Idea
According to the deflationary picture, believing that a theory is true is a trivial step beyond believing the theory.
Gist of Idea
The deflationary picture says believing a theory true is a trivial step after believing the theory
Source
Paul Horwich (Truth (2nd edn) [1990], Ch.2.17)
Book Ref
Horwich,Paul: 'Truth (2nd edn)' [OUP 1998], p.57
A Reaction
What has gone wrong with this picture is that you cannot (it seems to me) give a decent account of belief without mentioning truth. To believe a proposition is to hold it true. Hume's emotional account (Idea 2208) makes belief bewildering.
Related Idea
Idea 2208 Belief is just a particular feeling attached to ideas of objects [Hume]
23299 | Horwich's deflationary view is novel, because it relies on propositions rather than sentences [Horwich, by Davidson] |
6332 | The common-sense theory of correspondence has never been worked out satisfactorily [Horwich] |
6336 | No deflationary conception of truth does justice to the fact that we aim for truth [Horwich] |
6337 | The deflationary picture says believing a theory true is a trivial step after believing the theory [Horwich] |
6334 | The function of the truth predicate? Understanding 'true'? Meaning of 'true'? The concept of truth? A theory of truth? [Horwich] |
6335 | The redundancy theory cannot explain inferences from 'what x said is true' and 'x said p', to p [Horwich] |
6338 | We could know the truth-conditions of a foreign sentence without knowing its meaning [Horwich] |
6339 | Logical form is the aspects of meaning that determine logical entailments [Horwich] |
6340 | There are Fregean de dicto propositions, and Russellian de re propositions, or a mixture [Horwich] |
6341 | Right translation is a mapping of languages which preserves basic patterns of usage [Horwich] |
6342 | Some correspondence theories concern facts; others are built up through reference and satisfaction [Horwich] |
6344 | Truth is a useful concept for unarticulated propositions and generalisations about them [Horwich] |