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    Supports→A Field-style disquotationalist is committed to the view that beliefs are relations between thinkers and sentences

    For truth to be applicable to beliefs under disquotationalism, beliefs must be mental states relating thinkers to sentences of a language of thought

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    Field’s disquotationalism addresses some of the worries that arose for earlier versions of this variety of deflationism, due to their connections with Tarski’s method of defining truth predicates. It also explains how to apply a disquotational truth predicate to ambiguous and indexical utterances, thereby going beyond Quine’s (1970 [1986]) insistence on taking eternal sentences as the subjects of the instances of (ES-sent) (cf. Field 1994a, 278–81). So, Field’s view addresses some of the concern

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