Horwich’s Epistemological Fundamentality and Folk Commitment

Abstract There are many variants of deflationism about truth, but one them, Paul Horwich’s minimalism, stands out because it accepts as axiomatic practical the equivalence schema: 〈 p 〉 is true if and only . The schema epistemologically fundamental. In this paper, I call upon empirical studies to show that widely accepted by non-philosophers. While in data there variation how non-philosophers philosophers talk truth they judge a proposition true, significant amount collected over years reveal ordinary or folk view compatible with epistemological fundamentality alethic minimalism. This, take it, suggests people share same intuitions form bedrock