The Innocence of Truth

Dialectica 69 (1):61-85 (2015)
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Abstract

One of the popular explications of the deflationary tenet of ‘thinness’ of truth is the conservativeness demand: the declaration that a deflationary truth theory should be conservative over its base. This paper contains a critical discussion and assessment of this demand. We ask and answer the question of whether conservativity forms a part of deflationary doctrines.

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Cezary Cieslinski
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