Deflating the Determination Argument

This article argues for the compatibility of deflationism and truth‐conditional semantic theories. I begin by focusing on an argument due to Dorit Bar‐On, Claire Horisk, and Willian Lycan for incompatibility, arguing that their argument relies on an ambiguity between two senses of the expression ‘is at least.’ I go on to show how the disambiguated arguments have different consequences for the deflationist, and argue that no conclusions are established that the deflationist cannot accommodate. I then respond to some objections and gesture at a more general defense of the compatibility claim.