Paul Horwich

British analytic philosopher

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Paul Horwich is a British analytic philosopher known for his work on the theory of truth. He is a proponent of deflationism, also known as the redundancy theory of truth, which suggests that the concept of truth is not a substantial property but rather a linguistic device. According to this view, stating that a sentence is true is essentially equivalent to stating the sentence itself.12

Horwich's contributions to this field include his argument that all there is to the notion of truth is captured by instances of the equivalence schema: "It is true that p if and only if p". This perspective challenges more traditional correspondence or coherence theories of truth, proposing a simpler, more minimal understanding of what it means for something to be true.12

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Ayer, and more recently Paul Horwich—have denied that truth can be a substantial property, arguing that all there is to the notion of truth is captured by instances of the equivalence schema. Even if this is accepted, however, it does not follow that there cannot be a more substantial…
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Ayer, and more recently Paul Horwich—have denied that truth can be a substantial property, arguing that all there is to the notion of truth is captured by instances of the equivalence schema. Even if this is accepted, however, it does not follow that there cannot be a more substantial…
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