Single Idea 15358

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

Full Idea

Deflationism says the theory of truth does not have a substantial domain of its own. The domain of the theory of truth consists of the bearers of truth.

Gist of Idea

Deflationism says truth isn't a topic on its own - it just concerns what is true

Source

Leon Horsten (The Tarskian Turn [2011], 05.1)

Book Reference

Horsten,Leon: 'The Tarskian Turn' [MIT 2011], p.60


A Reaction

The immediate thought is that truth also concerns falsehoods, which would be inexplicable without it. If physics just concerns the physical, does that mean that physics lacks its own 'domain'? Generalising about the truths is a topic.