Open AccessNormativity and Deflationary Theories of Truth
Author(s) -
Bruno Mölder
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
studia philosophica estonica/studia philosophica estonica.
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2228-110X
pISSN - 1736-5899
DOI - 10.12697/spe.2008.1.2.03
Subject(s) - minimalism (technical communication) , deflation , epistemology , philosophy , rest (music) , mathematics , economics , keynesian economics , physics , monetary policy , statistics , acoustics
It has been argued that deflationary theories of truth stumble over the normativity of truth. This paper maintains that the normativity objection does not pose problems to at least one version of deflationism, minimalism. The rest of the paper discusses truth-related norms, showing that either they do not hold or they are not troublesome for deflationism.