Deflationary theory of truth
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"Deflationism" redirects here. For the metaphysical position, see Metaphysical deflationism.
In philosophy and logic, a deflationary theory of truth (also semantic deflationism[1] or simply deflationism) is one of a family of theories that all have in common the claim that assertions of predicate truth of a statement do not attribute a property called "truth" to such a statement.
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