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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"deflationism"”.
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Deflating Deflationism
… nature and function of the property of truth, deflationism is well supported. However, deflationary semantics, which combines deflationism about truth with deflationism about meaning cannot be argued for by pointing to the expressive function of the truth predicate.</p> <p>Having shown that …
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The Hermeneutical Reality of Constitutional Law: Understanding the Legality of Constitutional Adjudication
… domain of constitutionality, then the realist deflationism cannot be the default approach in understanding constitutional adjudication. Accordingly, to make the case for constitutional hermeneutics, the thesis analyses the CCRT’s jurisprudence under the 1961 Constitution. I contend that the …
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Die Grenzen des Wahrheitsdeflationismus
Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit werden zwei allgemeine Ziele verfolgt: ein negatives und ein positives. Das negative Ziel besteht darin, den Nachweis zu liefern, daß auf der Grundlage einer deflationistischen Konzeption der Wahrheit keine angemessene philosophische Analyse der Wahrheit gegeben werden kann. …
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Defending Deflationary Heuristics Against Hyperintensional Manoeuvres
`Deflationary heuristics' for deflating metaphysical disputes are prominent due to the work of Hirsch, Chalmers and Thomasson. Though these heuristics differ in detail, they work broadly on the same basis. They show that the disputants in a dispute agree on all extensional and intensional facts. …
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Three problems of folk psychology: meaning, character, and domain
… deflationists disagree. One robust strain of deflationism, best articulated by José Bermúdez, contends that creatures lacking language are incapable of mindreading. I argue that this language-dependency thesis is incorrect even if one requires that mindreading necessarily involves the …