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紧缩主义,一个有影响力的哲学真理学说,认为没有真理的属性,并且公开使用谓词“真”是多余的。然而,理论家用来举例说明通货紧缩主义的假设例子是孤立的句子,很少提供检查谓词在上下文中增加的意义。我们反对这个理论不是基于哲学,而是基于经验。我们从美国出版的10种有影响力的期刊中收集了7610次“it is true that”。我们根据它们所包含的协调连词和从属连词的位置对它们进行分类和注释。通过这种方式,我们研究了“it is true that”之后的命题与其周围环境之间的语境关系。总共会遇到34种不同的语法模式。在“true”出现的某些情况下,谓语的行为方式与动词的行为方式相同。这些事件在语言可靠的媒体上被观察到,构成了通货紧缩主义的实用反例。
Deflationism, one of the influential philosophical doctrines of truth, holds that there is no property of truth, and that overt uses of the predicate “true” are redundant. However, the hypothetical examples used by theorists to exemplify deflationism are isolated sentences, offering little to examine what the predicate adds to meaning within context. We oppose the theory not on philosophical but on empirical grounds. We collect 7,610 occurrences of “it is true that” from 10 influential periodicals published in the United States. We classify and annotate these with respect to the positions of coordinating and subordinating conjunctions that they contain. This way we investigate the contextual relationships between the proposition following “it is true that” with its surroundings. Overall, 34 different syntactical patterns are encountered. In some occurrences of “true”, the predicate acts in the same manner as a performative verb does. These occurrences, having been observed in linguistically reliable media, constitute pragmatic counter-examples to deflationism.