Deflationary Truth, Ordinary Truth and Relative Truth

Horwich (Mind 123(491), 2014) has argued that only someone with inflationary tendencies could feel inclined to endorse truth relativism. In doing so, he argues that deflationism about truth entails the denial of relativism. If sound, Horwich’s argument could entail that truth relativism is incompat...

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Main Author: Ramiro Caso
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Language:Spanish
Published: Universidad de Murcia, Departamento de Filosofía 2023-05-01
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description Horwich (Mind 123(491), 2014) has argued that only someone with inflationary tendencies could feel inclined to endorse truth relativism. In doing so, he argues that deflationism about truth entails the denial of relativism. If sound, Horwich’s argument could entail that truth relativism is incompatible with any conception of our ordinary truth predicate according to which there is some sort of equivalence between a ground-language claim that p and the corresponding claim that p is true. Arguably, any story the relativist might give about our ordinary truth predicate, it should entail some such equivalence. Hence, there is a problem for truth relativism that needs to be addressed.
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spelling doaj-art-dc5e7d87bb1a42d784c63c78f8551dc42025-08-20T02:53:04ZspaUniversidad de Murcia, Departamento de FilosofíaDaimon1989-46512023-05-018910.6018/daimon.480391Deflationary Truth, Ordinary Truth and Relative TruthRamiro Caso Horwich (Mind 123(491), 2014) has argued that only someone with inflationary tendencies could feel inclined to endorse truth relativism. In doing so, he argues that deflationism about truth entails the denial of relativism. If sound, Horwich’s argument could entail that truth relativism is incompatible with any conception of our ordinary truth predicate according to which there is some sort of equivalence between a ground-language claim that p and the corresponding claim that p is true. Arguably, any story the relativist might give about our ordinary truth predicate, it should entail some such equivalence. Hence, there is a problem for truth relativism that needs to be addressed. https://revistas.um.es/daimon/article/view/480391truth relativismradical relativismdeflationism
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Deflationary Truth, Ordinary Truth and Relative Truth
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truth relativism
radical relativism
deflationism
title Deflationary Truth, Ordinary Truth and Relative Truth
title_full Deflationary Truth, Ordinary Truth and Relative Truth
title_fullStr Deflationary Truth, Ordinary Truth and Relative Truth
title_full_unstemmed Deflationary Truth, Ordinary Truth and Relative Truth
title_short Deflationary Truth, Ordinary Truth and Relative Truth
title_sort deflationary truth ordinary truth and relative truth
topic truth relativism
radical relativism
deflationism
url https://revistas.um.es/daimon/article/view/480391
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