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Hartry Field (1946), American philosopher. His major works include Science Without Numbers (1980), Realism, Mathematics and Modality (1989), and Truth and the Absence of Fact (2001). His fields of specialization are philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of science, epistemology, and metaphysics.
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Inflationism, philosophy: Inflationism, (usually not so-called), requires, in addition to determining whether a statement is true, the specification of conditions under which it is true. From this a truth-definition is to be obtained. The opposite term is the deflationism, that assumes that the truth schema S <> [p] with the example "snow is white" is true if and only if snow is white sufficient for a truth definition for formal languages. This latter view is also called disquotationalism, because the quotation is deprived of its quotes to the left of the equivalence._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Field, Hartry | Inflationism | Field | |
Horwich, Paul | Inflationism | Horwich | |
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