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The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: Reconciling Deflationary Semantics with Correspondence Intuitions

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This paper has three main concerns. First, it proposes a deflationary theory of the concept of truth, arguing thatthe concept can be explicitly defined in terms of substitutionalquantification. Second, it attempts to describe and explainthe intuitions that have traditionally been thought tofavor correspondence theories of truth over deflationarytheories. And third, it argues that these intuitions areultimately compatible with deflationism, maintaining,among other things, that the relation of semantic correspondence can itself be characterized in terms ofsubstitutional quantification.

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Hill, C.S. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: Reconciling Deflationary Semantics with Correspondence Intuitions. Philosophical Studies 104, 291–321 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010395909794

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