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    Deflationism faces a dilemma: it is either false or trivial. — Carmelics
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    Deflationism faces a dilemma: it is either false or trivial.

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    • 1.Tarski's Convention T reveals that any adequate truth predicate must satisfy 'S is true iff p', generating commitment to either sentential or propositional readings.
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    • 2.Field (1972) showed that Tarski's definition fails to reduce semantic notions to physical ones, exposing that deflationism inherits this explanatory gap regardless of which horn it chooses.
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    • 3.A truth predicate that neither explains nor reduces semantic properties collapses into either a false syntactic generalization or a contentless propositional placeholder.
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    • 1.Gupta (1993) demonstrated that the Equivalence Schema generates paradoxes under unrestricted application, forcing deflationists to impose restrictions that themselves presuppose a substantive truth theory.
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    • 2.Any restriction on the Equivalence Schema that blocks paradox must discriminate between legitimate and illegitimate instances, requiring non-trivial truth-theoretic criteria the deflationist cannot supply without circularity.
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    • 1.The deflationist schema must be interpreted as being about either sentences or propositions.
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    • 2.If the deflationist schema is about sentences, it is false (as a necessary claim) because it ignores the linguistic fact that the sentence must mean that snow is white.
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    • 3.If the deflationist schema is about propositions, it is trivial because propositions are defined by their truth conditions.
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    Now, does ‘snow is white’ in (12) refer to a sentence or a proposition? If, on the one hand, we take (12) to be about a sentence, then, assuming (12) can be interpreted as making a necessary claim, it is false. On the face of it, after all, it takes a lot more than snow’s being white for it to be the case that ‘snow is white’ is true. In order for ‘snow is white’ to be true, it must be the case not only that snow is white, it must, in addition, be the case that ‘snow is white’ means that snow is
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