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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Causation' and 'Truth (2nd edn)'

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3. Truth / H. Deflationary Truth / 1. Redundant Truth

6335	The redundancy theory cannot explain inferences from 'what x said is true' and 'x said p', to p [Horwich]

3. Truth / H. Deflationary Truth / 2. Deflationary Truth

6344	Truth is a useful concept for unarticulated propositions and generalisations about them [Horwich]

6336	No deflationary conception of truth does justice to the fact that we aim for truth [Horwich]

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Horwich's deflationary view is novel, because it relies on propositions rather than sentences [Horwich, by Davidson]

6337	The deflationary picture says believing a theory true is a trivial step after believing the theory [Horwich]