%0 Journal Article
%T 'Indeed', 'Really', 'In Fact', 'Actually'
%A Gerald Vision
%J Studia Philosophica Estonica
%D 2008
%I University of Tartu
%X Interjections, such as those in the title, together with a few similar devices, when qualifying clauses expressing truth-conditions, or that such conditions have been satisfied, are entitled ¡®force-amplifiers¡¯. Disputes between deflationary and inflationary truth-theories sometimes are assumed to turn on the supposed pivotal role that these devices are construed as playing in the interpretation of the clauses they qualify. I argue that they are not dispensable add-ons. Moreover, even in their absence the relevant clauses giving truth-conditions permit interpretations that aren¡¯t deflationary-friendly. I maintain that this is a significant fact about the use to which writers put them. I then defend, a thesis about force-amplifiers that makes them indispensable to the interpretation of the relevant clauses, and that renders certain moves unavailable to popular deflationist treatments.
%K deflationary theories of truth
%U http://www.spe.ut.ee/ojs/index.php/spe/article/download/3/1