Deflationism about truth combines two claims: (i) that truth is not a substantial property; and (ii) that the key to our use of the concept of truth lies in its disquotational character—i.e., in the fact that (DS) " p " is true if and only if p holds for all central declarative sentences. According to deflationists, the key to an understanding of truth lies in an appreciation of the grammatical...

Stephen Read’s work on Bradwardine’s theory of truth is some of the most exciting work on truth and insolubilia in recent years [4, 5]. In this paper, I give models for Read’s formulation of Bradwardine’s theory of truth, and I examine the behaviour of liar sentences in those models. I conclude by examining Bradwardine’s argument to the effect that if something signifies itself to be untrue the...

In section one I outline the project of Armstrong‟s book Truth and Truthmakers. In section two I make some observations about the relation of this project to various theories of truth and to realism. In section three I present Armstrong‟s response to one of the toughest challenges to his thesis that every truth has a truthmaker: the challenge of finding truthmakers for negative truths and gener...