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    Challenges→Disquotationalism faces a serious objection because it restricts truth to sentences rather than to what is stated by sentences

    The proper target of a truth ascription is not the sentence uttered but what is thereby stated

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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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