Deflationists about truth generally regard the contribution that “true” makes to utterances to be purely logical or expressive: it exists to facilitate communication, and remedy our expressive deficiencies that are due to ignorance or finitude. This paper presents a challenge to that view by considering alethic desires. Alethic desires are desires for one's beliefs to be true. Such desires, I argue, do not admit of any deflationarily acceptable analysis, and so challenge the deflationist's austere view about the semantic role of “true”. I consider a number of deflationist proposals for analyzing alethic desires, and find them all problematic.

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通货紧缩主义、真理和欲望

关于真理的紧缩论者通常认为“真实”对话语的贡献纯粹是逻辑的或表达的：它的存在是为了促进交流，并弥补我们由于无知或有限而导致的表达缺陷。本文通过考虑运动欲望对这一观点提出了挑战。Alethic 欲望是对一个人的信仰真实的欲望。我认为，这种愿望不允许任何通货紧缩可接受的分析，因此挑战了通货紧缩论者关于“真实”语义角色的严厉观点。我考虑了一些用于分析运动欲望的通缩论建议，发现它们都有问题。