Deflating the correspondence intuition

Dialectica 59 (3):315–329 (2005)
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Abstract

A common objection against deflationist theories of truth is that they cannot do justice to the correspondence intuition, i.e. the intuition that there is an explanatory relationship between, for instance, the truth of ‘Snow is white’ and snow's being white. We scrutinize two attempts to meet this objection and argue that both fail. We then propose a new response to the objection which, first, sheds doubt on the correctness of the correspondence intuition and, second, seeks to explain how we may nonetheless have come to have that intuition.

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original Igor Douven, Frank Hindriks (2005) "Deflating the Correspondence Intuition". Dialectica 59(3):315-329

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Igor Douven
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Frank Hindriks
University of Groningen

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