A1 Journal article (refereed)
Quine’s conflicts with truth deflationism (2022)
Tauriainen, T. (2022). Quine’s conflicts with truth deflationism. Asian Journal of Philosophy, 1(2), Article 46. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44204-022-00047-x
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Publication details
All authors or editors: Tauriainen, Teemu
Journal or series: Asian Journal of Philosophy
ISSN: 2731-4642
eISSN: 2731-4642
Publication year: 2022
Publication date: 03/10/2022
Volume: 1
Issue number: 2
Article number: 46
Publisher: Springer
Publication country: Germany
Publication language: English
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s44204-022-00047-x
Publication open access: Openly available
Publication channel open access: Partially open access channel
Publication is parallel published (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/83546
Abstract
Compared to the extensive amount of literature on various themes of W.V.O. Quine’s philosophy, his immanent concept of truth remains a relatively unexplored topic. This relative lack of research contributes to a persistent confusion on the deflationary and inflationary details of Quine’s truth. According to a popular reading, Quine’s disquotational definition of the truth predicate exhausts the topic of truth, thus amounting to a deflationary view. Others promote opposing interpretations. I argue that by relying on Tarski’s semantic conception of truth, Quine’s disquotational account inherits a commitment to classical correspondence intuitions. Based on this, Quine posits a firm constitution for truth as an intermediary between language and the world. From this constitution claim follows that the disquotational account proves incompatible with both the general deflationary thesis and, more specifically, the minimalist account, which deny any constitution for truth past what is given by the preferred deflationary schema. This reading is significant for refuting the widespread misrepresentations of Quine as a prominent deflationist.
Keywords: analytical philosophy; logic; philosophy of language; truth; theories of truth; correspondence (equivalence)
Free keywords: W.V.O. Quine; truth; disquotation; correspondence; deflationism; inflationism
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VIRTA submission year: 2022
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