The Grammar of truth
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- dc.contributor.author Hinzen, Wolfram
- dc.contributor.author Wiltschko, Martina
- dc.date.accessioned 2019-10-21T08:48:03Z
- dc.date.available 2019-10-21T08:48:03Z
- dc.date.issued 2018
- dc.description.abstract Much philosophical attention has been devoted to the truth predicates of natural language and their logic. However, lexical truth predicates are neither necessary nor sufficient for a truth-attribution to occur, which warrants closer attention to the grammar of truth attribution. A unified analysis of five constructions is offered here, in two of which the lexical truth predicate occurs (It’s true that John left and That John left is true), while in the three remaining, it does not (John left; It seems that John left; and It’s that John left). This analysis is philosophically significant for four reasons. First, it explains why speakers of natural language find standard instances of Tarski-inspired equivalences (e.g., That John left is true iff John left) intuitively compelling. Second, it derives the widespread ‘deflationist’ intuition that truth has no substantive content. Third, insofar as the deflationist sees insights on truth as flowing from understanding our practice of truth attribution, it furthers the deflationist agenda through a new analysis of such attributions. Finally, it advances the philosophical project of the ‘naturalization’ of truth by reducing our understanding of truth to our competence in the grammar of truth, as an aspect of our biological endowment.
- dc.description.sponsorship This research was supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (grant number AH/L004070/1 to W.H.), and the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, Spanish Government (grant FFI2016-77647-C2-1-P to W.H.)
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- dc.identifier.citation Hinzen W, Wiltschko M. The Grammar of truth. Inquiry. 2018 Aug 9. DOI: 10.1080/0020174X.2018.1532691
- dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2018.1532691
- dc.identifier.issn 0020-174X
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/42474
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.publisher Taylor & Francis
- dc.relation.ispartof Inquiry. 2018 Aug 9. DOI: 10.1080/0020174X.2018.1532691
- dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PE/FFI2016-77647-C2-1-P
- dc.rights © This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Inquiry on 2018 Aug 9, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/0020174X.2018.1532691
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- dc.subject.keyword Truth
- dc.subject.keyword Grammar
- dc.subject.keyword Tarski
- dc.subject.keyword Deflationism
- dc.title The Grammar of truth
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