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Full Idea
According to many deflationists, truth serves merely the purpose of expressing infinite conjunctions.
Gist of Idea
Deflationists say truth merely serves to express infinite conjunctions
Source
Volker Halbach (Axiomatic Theories of Truth (2005 ver) [2005], 1.3)
Book Ref
'Stanford Online Encyclopaedia of Philosophy', ed/tr. Stanford University [plato.stanford.edu], p.4
A Reaction
That is, it asserts sentences that are too numerous to express individually. It also seems, on a deflationist view, to serve for anaphoric reference to sentences, such as 'what she just said is true'.