![]() ![]() For example, the redundancy theory of truth holds that to assert that a statement is true is just to assert the statement itself. But, deflationists say, statements that seem to predicate truth actually do nothing more than signal agreement with the statement. Since most predicates name properties, we naturally assume that "is true" does as well. The belief that truth is a property is just an illusion caused by the fact that we have the predicate "is true" in our language. Ramsey, also allege that truth is not the name of some property of propositions - some thing about which one could have a theory. (See Semantic paradoxes, and below.) Some variations of the pragmatic theory are classed here, and even many correspondence theorists can be interpreted as (meaning to be) in this camp as well.ĭeflationary theories, after Gottlob Frege and F. The primary theoretical concern of these views is to explain away those special cases where it appears that the concept of truth does have peculiar and interesting properties. These positions are broadly called "deflationary" theories of truth (because the concept has been "deflated" of importance) or "disquotational" theories (to draw attention to the mere "disappearance" of the quotation marks in cases like the above example). They claim that to say "2 + 2 = 4" is true is to say no more than that 2 + 2 = 4, and that there is no more to say about truth than this. Other philosophers reject the idea that truth is a robust concept in this sense.
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