Field (1972) showed that Tarski's definition fails to reducesemantic notions to physical ones, exposing that deflationism inherits this explanatory gap regardless of which horn it chooses.
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Which horn it chooses(as a metaphor for deflationism's unavoidable problems)
When a difficult problem seems to have multiple ways to solve it, but each solution has its own problems—each option is called a 'horn,' and this phrase means no matter which option you pick, you still have a flaw.
deflationism(The position under critical scrutiny in this passage)
A view about truth (implied by context) under which certain explanatory claims, such as (6), are equivalent to trivially self-referential claims like (8).
explanatory gap(Central concept in anti-physicalist arguments)
The alleged in-principle inability to intelligibly explain how consciousness arises from physical processes