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Truth

In Our Time: Philosophy

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The Redundancy Theory - The Deflationary Theory

Modern descendants of redundancy theory often called deflationary theories. They give, or try to give, an account of those contexts. And i think they can do a reasonable job. But ramsey himself realized that there are contexts which aren't wiped out. If somebody says at the end of this programme, everything melvin said was true, it's not possible to wipe out the word true from that context.

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