I argue that deflationary theories of truth reveal an important lesson for the broader theory of truth: although the notion of truthmaking has played an essential role in many traditional theories of truth, it can be separated from and survive the rejection of substantive theories of truth. I argue that many of the traditional substantive theories of truth (correspondence, coherence, pragmatic) are unified in defining truth in terms of the ontological grounds (or truthmakers) that are needed to account for truth. Deflationists reject the idea that a theory of truth needs such metaphysical implications, but in so doing they need not rule out the possibility of developing an independently motivated theory of truthmaking. I argue that deflationists can and should embrace truthmaker theory, once it is shorn from its connection to the traditional project of defining truth.

我认为，通缩的真理理论为更广泛的真理理论揭示了一个重要的教训：尽管真理创造的概念在许多传统的真理理论中发挥了至关重要的作用，但它可以与实质性的真理理论相分离并幸免。我认为，许多传统的真理实性理论（对应，连贯，实用）都是统一的，它们根据解释真理所需要的本体论依据（或真理创造者）来定义真理。通货紧缩主义者拒绝认为真理理论需要这种形而上学的暗示，但是这样做并不需要排除发展独立动机的真理创造理论的可能性。我认为通缩主义者可以并且应该接受真理制造者理论，