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Minimalism's Constructions
1 : University of Barcelona, Logos Group
In this paper I introduce Horwich's deflationary theory of truth, called 'Minimalism', and I present his proposal to cope with the Liar paradox. This proposal proceeds by restricting the T-schema and, as a consequence of that, it needs a constructive specification of which instances of the T-schema are to be excluded from the minimalist theory of truth. Horwich has presented, in an informal way, one construction that specifies the minimalist theory. The main aim of the paper is to present and scrutinize some formal versions of Horwich's construction. I will also present a way of understanding these constructions as epistemic models of the relation of explanatory dependence between truth ascriptions and the extra-semantic facts.
