Ottawa University
Humanities
I want to motivate an account of what it is for an object to have a property, which may as well be called a deflationary view about properties. Such a view follows from a conception of predication I ground in the work of Donald Davidson,... more
Donald Davidson deployed a slingshot argument to argue for the conclusion that there was at most one fact to which all true statements corresponded, and hence, that the correspondence theory of truth was useless; such a theory does little... more
I want to motivate an account of what it is for an object to have a property, which may as well be called a deflationary view about properties. Such a view follows from a conception of predication I ground in the work of Donald Davidson,... more
I want to motivate an account of what it is for an object to have a property, which may as well be called a deflationary view about properties. Such a view follows from a conception of predication I ground in the work of Donald Davidson,... more