Date of Completion

4-12-2019

Embargo Period

4-12-2019

Keywords

truth, deflationism, degrees, gradability, semantics, correspondence, truth-conditions

Major Advisor

Keith Simmons

Associate Advisor

Stewart Shapiro

Associate Advisor

Michael Lynch

Associate Advisor

Magdalena Kaufmann

Field of Study

Philosophy

Degree

Doctor of Philosophy

Open Access

Open Access

Abstract

This dissertation investigates the limits of deflationary theories of truth and offers in their place a degree-theoretic conception of truth. The primary focus is on the intersections of theories of truth and theories of linguistic meaning, particularly as found in contemporary linguistics. I offer two degree theories: one substantive and one deflationary. It is argued that the substantive theory is the best descriptive theory of truth, but that the deflationary theory is an attractive revisionary theory.

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