Deflationary Theory of Truth

A deflationary theory of truth is one of a family of theories which all have in common the claim that assertions that predicate truth of a statement do not attribute a property called truth to such a statement.

Read more about Deflationary Theory Of Truth:  Redundancy Theory, Performative Theory, Tarski and Deflationary Theories, Disquotationalism, Prosententialism, Horwich's Minimalism, Objections To Deflationism

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